Guest guest Posted August 20, 2000 Report Share Posted August 20, 2000 go to: http://www.dechema.de/biotech/vbukarte/schebo.htm ScheBo Pancreatic Elastase 1 in stool samples Indications abdominal pain: Is the pancreas involved ? diagnosis of cystic fibrosis related to the involvement of the pancreas control of exocrine pancreatic capacity of patients with endocrine insufficiency (Diabetes mellitus) monitoring of patients with mild pancreatic insufficiency Advantages most powerful indirect pancreatic function test high sensitivity and high specificity (> 93%) superior diagnostic efficiency, excellent correlation with costly gold-standard (invasive pancreatic function test) Elastase 1 determination is not influenced by substitution therapy. ScheBo Pancreatic Elastase 1 in serum Indications diagnosis or exclusion of acute pancreatitis clarification of pancreatic participation in abdominal pain Advantages more sensitive and specific than amylase, lipase and pancreatic amylase immunological detection less tedious than enzymatic determination (amylase, lipase) long half-life of pancreatic elastase 1 allows diagnosis even several days after onset of acute pancreatitis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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