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Validation of novel point-of-care test for alanine aminotransferase measurement: A pilot cohort study
Jessica Howell, Huy Van, Minh Pham, Rohit Sawhney, Fan Li, Purnima Bhat, John Lubel, William Kemp, Stephen Bloom, Avik Majumdar, Geoff McCaughan, Samuel Hall, Timothy Spelman, Joseph S. Doyle, Margaret Hellard, Kumar Visvanathan, Alexander J. Thompson, Heidi E. Drummer, David Anderson … See fewer authors
First published: 10 October 2022
https://doi.org/10.1002/cld.1261
Jessica Howell and Huy Van co- first author.
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INTRODUCTION
Chronic liver disease is a major global public health challenge: without timely diagnosis, untreated chronic liver diseases such as hepatitis B and C can lead to death from cirrhosis and liver cancer.1, 2 Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) is a blood-based marker of acute liver inflammation used to diagnose, evaluate, and monitor chronic liver disease.3-6 However, conventional ALT measurement poses a significant barrier to timely liver disease management in low resource and remote settings where access to routine pathology testing is limited.7, 8
We developed a novel, easy-to-use rapid point-of-care (POC) immunoassay lateral flow test that measures the liver-specific ALT1 component of total enzymatic ALT. Using a single droplet of blood or plasma, the POC ALT1 test provides a semi-quantitative visual result for an ALT cutoff of 40 IU/L, or quantitative ALT1 using the Axxin hand-held flow test reader, within 30 minutes. Prototype POC ALT1 tests were provided by Nanjing BioPoint Diagnostics (PR China).
In this pilot study, we demonstrate the diagnostic accuracy of the POC ALT1 test for clinically significant elevations in ALT compared to the laboratory gold standard assay in people with viral hepatitis.
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