Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

The Diagnostics Advisory Committee discussed the focus of the evaluation and the evidence available for faecal calprotectin testing. It noted that evidence existed on faecal calprotectin testing in ...

Background: Calprotectin is a calcium binding protein, abundant in neutrophils and stable in faeces. The aims of this study were to assess faecal calprotectin concentrations (f-calprotectin) in very ...

A calprotectin stool test detects levels of calprotectin in stool. This protein indicates bowel inflammation. It can help diagnose and monitor conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A ...

Several technologies that measure the level of calprotectin in stool samples (faecal calprotectin) were evaluated, including fully quantitative laboratory-based tests, fully quantitative rapid tests ...