Laboratory markers in IBD: useful, magic, or unnecessary toys?

By Severine Vermeire, G. V. Assche, P. Rutgeerts. Gut, 2006

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Genetics, Hematology

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Citations in the corpus

• A microbial signature for Crohn's disease (2017, methodology): “Indeed, this tool could be combined with either imaging techniques or calprotectin data to con fi rm diagnosis.”
• Noninvasive Markers in the Assessment of Intestinal Inflammation in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Performance of Fecal Lactoferrin, Calprotectin, and PMN-Elastase, CRP, and Clinical Indices (2008, background): “In serum, the white blood cell count, platelet count, or erythrocyte sedimentation rate can change during inflammatory states, but these measures are hampered by a low sensitivity and specificity for intestinal inflammation, and do not adequately reflect disease activity (1).”