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 ...

Measuring fecal calprotectin (FC), when used in conjunction with imaging, endoscopy, and histology may be valuable in distinguishing those patients with IBD from those with the irritable bowel ...

Fecal calprotectin is a highly sensitive assay that measures inflammation present in the intestinal tract. Gastroenterologists are increasingly ordering fecal calprotectin to screen and monitor ...

Unconjugated bilirubin(UCB) may be responsible of a damage on intestinal mucosa of the jaundiced newborns. We investigate the effects of UCB on intestinal permeability (IP) and on fecal calprotectin ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a prospective study, researchers enrolled 457 asymptomatic participants (mean age 61.4 years; 75% women) from ...

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 ...

Background: The early bacterial colonization of the intestine post partum may affect gut inflammation and risk for disease. Very low birth weight infants (VLBW, < 1500 g) are at risk for ...

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 ...