Volume 123, Issue 2, Pages 450-460 (August 2002) Use of surrogate markers of inflammation and Rome criteria to distinguish organic from nonorganic intestinal disease Jeremy A. Tibble, Gudmundur Sigthorsson, Russell Foster, Ian Forgacs, Ingvar Bjarnason Gastroenterology Volume 123, Issue 2, Pages 450-460 (August 2002) DOI: 10.1053/gast.2002.34755 Copyright © 2002 American Gastroenterological Association Terms and Conditions
Fig. 1 Principal symptoms for which patients were referred according to the final diagnostic group. Gastroenterology 2002 123, 450-460DOI: (10.1053/gast.2002.34755) Copyright © 2002 American Gastroenterological Association Terms and Conditions
Fig. 2 Dot plot of fecal calprotectin levels in the different diagnostic groups. The cutoff value for normality (10 mg/L) is shown by the horizontal line. The calprotectin levels in all organic diagnostic groups except those with diabetic diarrhea differed significantly (P = 0.001 to <0.0001) from those in the IBS group. Gastroenterology 2002 123, 450-460DOI: (10.1053/gast.2002.34755) Copyright © 2002 American Gastroenterological Association Terms and Conditions
Fig. 3 ROC for fecal calprotectin identifying patients with organic disease. At the cutoff value for normality (10 mg/L), fecal calprotectin has a sensitivity of 89% and specificity of 79% for organic disease. Gastroenterology 2002 123, 450-460DOI: (10.1053/gast.2002.34755) Copyright © 2002 American Gastroenterological Association Terms and Conditions
Fig. 4 ROC for intestinal permeability identifying patients with organic small intestinal disease. At the cutoff value for normality (0.05), intestinal permeability has a sensitivity of 63% and specificity of 87% for organic small intestinal disease. Gastroenterology 2002 123, 450-460DOI: (10.1053/gast.2002.34755) Copyright © 2002 American Gastroenterological Association Terms and Conditions