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Fecal Calprotectin
Aka: Fecal Calprotectin
- Indications
- Suspected Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Mechanism
- Indicator of fecal Leukocyte activity
- Protocol
- Calprotectin is stable in stool samples at room Temperature for up to 1 week
- Interpretation
- Negative test suggests diagnoses other than Inflammatory Bowel Disease are more likely
- Positive test requires Colonoscopy for confirmation
- Efficacy: Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Test Sensitivity: 93%
- Test Specificity
- Adults: 96%
- Children and Adolescents: 76%
- References
- Schoepfer (2010) Am J Gastroenterol 105(1): 162-9 [PubMed]
- van Rheenen (2010) BMJ 341:c3369 [PubMed]