This prospective study in a large cohort of patients examined the use of calprotectin measurement in feces as a diagnostic test to identify clinically significant gastrointestinal findings in patients ...

A calprotectin stool test detects levels of calprotectin in stool. This protein indicates bowel inflammation. It can help diagnose and monitor conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A ...

The elevated fecal calprotectin in such cases can trigger gastroenterologists to investigate further, and even escalate therapy to alter disease course. Although mucosal examination by colonoscopy ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The AGA formulated 11 conditional recommendations to inform the use of biomarkers in the management of Crohn’s ...

Fecal calprotectin (FC) is a marker of mucosal inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We aimed to assess the effect of anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) therapy on FC levels in ...

Regular stool tests already used in NHS care, combined with dietary information, could help identify people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) at higher risk of relapse, a major study appearing in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The proteomic profile of breast milk of women with inflammatory bowel disease may affect an infant’s microbiome ...

I am still haunted by my initiation to Crohn disease. My late brother Andrew, who succumbed to the illness because of a confluence of complications at 29 years-old, first manifested symptoms as a ...