With a more sensitive diagnostic, the expected drop-off in performance is smaller.
Published reports suggest that the CRP is a more sensitive diagnostic indicator of GCA and can be elevated when the ESR is normal.
The agar gel immunodiffusion (AGID) test and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based on detecting p26 antibodies are widely used, but there is an increasing need for developing a more sensitive diagnostic test utilizing other EIAV proteins.
In this review we have summarize the recent advances in proteogenomic approaches to develop more sensitive diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers which could be translated into improved clinical care and management of the disease.
Based on evidence from related apicomplexan species, we hypothesized that C. felis mitochondrial genes would exist at higher copy numbers than 18S and would be a more sensitive diagnostic target.
However, recent studies have determined a more sensitive diagnostic score [15], which has been accepted by the scientific community [21].
CONCLUSIONS: ECG conduction changes commonly occur in endocarditis despite more sensitive diagnostic criteria and are associated with increased mortality and invasive infection.
Contemporary care has been shaped by the availability of more sensitive diagnostic techniques and the earlier use of therapeutic interventions, which have the potential to improve patients' duration and quality of life.
Although high-resolution CT scanning can reveal these tumours because of their osseous erosion and enlargement of facial nerve canal (Fig. 31), MRI is a more sensitive diagnostic tool [8, 32].
"I hope one of the earliest outcomes of the genome project will be the development of more sensitive diagnostic tools which can distinguish between" tuberculosis and its relatives, he says.
About half of the children diagnosed with ASD in the new report had normal or above-average intelligence, compared with a third of children 10 years ago, suggesting that a significant proportion of the new cases are due to more sensitive diagnostic measures rather than increased incidence, she says.
