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- Title
Fecal calprotectin: an inflammatory biomarker with emerging importance in the clinical laboratory.
- Authors
Norman, Gary L.
- Abstract
The article discusses fecal calprotectin (FC) as a tool to help in assessment of intestinal inflammation, with the availability of a new assay cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to clinical laboratories. Topics discussed include direct relation of calprotectin in stool to quantity of neutrophils infiltrating inflamed intestinal mucosa and is surrogate inflammation marker, and use of calprotectin for ruling out inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and monitoring inflammation decline.
- Subjects
INFLAMMATORY bowel disease diagnosis; IRRITABLE colon diagnosis; BIOMARKERS; CARRIER proteins; DIFFERENTIAL diagnosis; INTESTINES; ENDOSCOPIC gastrointestinal surgery
- Publication
Medical Laboratory Observer (MLO), 2015, Vol 47, Issue 5, p24
- ISSN
0580-7247
- Publication type
Article