Abstract
In children with suspected inflammatory bowel disease, adding calprotectin stool testing to the screening strategy has been recommended to distinguish organic from nonorganic disease. In this cohort study with historical controls, we could not confirm that screening with stool calprotectin improves the diagnostic yield (ratio inflammatory bowel disease-positive endoscopies and total number of endoscopies); however, in patients with normal fecal calprotectin levels (
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 47-49 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition |
Volume | 62 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan-2016 |
Keywords
- calprotectin
- diagnostic yield
- inflammatory bowel disease
- S100A8/A9
- FECAL CALPROTECTIN
- METAANALYSIS