INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION
The LEUKO EZ VUE™ is a rapid immunochromatographic test for determining whether a patient has inflammatory diarrhea. Infectious inflammatory diarrheas are typically caused by Shigella, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and C. difficile. Noninfectious inflammatory diarrheas are due to ulcerative colitis and Crohn's Disease. All of these can become life-threatening if they are not recognized and treated.
The IBD-CHEK® is an ELISA that can be used to help identify patients with active inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and rule out those with active irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which is noninflammatory. IBD, which is a condition of chronic inflammation, consists of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Both of these diseases result in elevated levels of fecal lactoferrin. As a result, patients with these diseases test positive in the IBD-CHEK® kit. In patients with active IBS, the intestine appears normal upon endoscopic examination and there is no indication of inflammation. As a result, IBS patients test negative in the IBD-CHEK® kit.
The IBD-SCAN® is a quantitative ELISA for the detection of fecal lactoferrin.
Please be advised that effective May 1, 2010, the LEUKO-TEST, Catalog #T5002, is being discontinued and will no longer be available. In its place, we recommend the LEUKO EZ VUE™ kit, Catalog #30355, a 25 test kit which uses the lateral flow format. This kit is available exclusively through our global distributor, Inverness Medical.
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For more information, please select a diagnostic below:
T5008 - IBD-CHEK®
T5009 - IBD-SCAN®
T5016 - ASCA-CHEK
T5018 - IBD EZ VUE®
T5019 - LEUKO EZ VUE™