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Rapid Fecal Calprotectin Testing To Assess For Endoscopic Disease Activity In Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Diagnostic Cohort Study, Lukasz Kwapisz, Mahmoud Mosli, Nilesh Chande, Brian Yan, Melanie Beaton, Jessica Micsko, Pauline W. Mennill, William Barnett, Kevin Bax, Terry Ponich, John Howard, Anthony Tirolese, Robert Lannigan, James Gregor
Rapid Fecal Calprotectin Testing To Assess For Endoscopic Disease Activity In Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Diagnostic Cohort Study, Lukasz Kwapisz, Mahmoud Mosli, Nilesh Chande, Brian Yan, Melanie Beaton, Jessica Micsko, Pauline W. Mennill, William Barnett, Kevin Bax, Terry Ponich, John Howard, Anthony Tirolese, Robert Lannigan, James Gregor
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Background and Aim: With increasing numbers of patients diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), it is important to identify noninvasive methods of detecting disease activity. The aim of this study is to examine the diagnostic accuracy of fecal rapid calprotectin (FC) testing in the detection of endoscopically active IBD. Patients and Methods: All consecutive patients presenting to outpatient clinics with lower gastrointestinal symptoms were prospectively recruited. Patients provided FC samples. Sensitivity (Sn), specificity (Sp), positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) for FC were calculated. Receiver-operator characteristics (ROC) curve was used to identify the ideal FC cutoff that …