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Surreptitious abuse of magnesium laxatives as a cause of chronic diarrhoeaA Duncan
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Infirmary, North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust, Glasgow, UK
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 13:599-601. 2001..We would like to increase the awareness of surreptitious magnesium laxative abuse as a cause of chronic diarrhoea so that costly and unnecessary investigations may be minimized...
A review of the quality of gastrointestinal investigations performed in UK laboratoriesAndrew Duncan
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 0SF, UK
Ann Clin Biochem 44:145-58. 2007..Subsequently, several clinical guidelines have been developed and external quality assessment schemes introduced. This survey was performed to assess whether earlier deficiencies have been addressed...
Faecal calprotectin in the assessment of Crohn's disease activityD R Gaya
Department of Gastroenterology, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK
QJM 98:435-41. 2005..Calprotectin is a calcium-binding protein abundant in neutrophil cytosol, and extremely stable in faeces. Faecal calprotectin (FC) is an excellent surrogate marker of neutrophil influx into the bowel lumen...
