owl liver - Product description
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a progressive chronic disease in which the liver displays histological features similar to those induced by excessive alcohol intake in the absence of alcohol consumption. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), defined as Steatosis together with necroinflammatory lesions, is one stage in the spectrum of NAFLD, which ranges from benign hepatic steatosis to cirrhosis and liver failure.
The current clinical diagnosis for NASH includes liver biopsy, an invasive procedure associated with risk of severe complications. The identification of non invasive diagnosis systems at early stages of the disease brings great expectations to people at greater risk of suffering from NASH, for example, the obese population.
On many occasions, NASH diagnosis is provided when serious scarring or cirrhosis is already present. When the disease worsen, liver transplant is frequently the only treatment. In fact, transplant is increasingly performed in people with NASH, what is becoming a real problem for healthcare systems.
Therefore, an early and non invasive diagnosis (a blood test) could help avoiding high-risk population to develop NASH by changing their lifestyle and would allow easy follow up and monitoring of patient progression whilst avoiding the costs and complications of other diagnosis procedures.
At present, OWL Genomics has identified Steatosis and NASH biomarkers based on metabolomic and proteomics technologies.
owl liver is:
- The first in vitro blood based diagnostic for Steatosis and NASH based on metabolic procedures.
- Non invasive test. Allows easy follow up of patient progression.
- Entirely patented and developed by OWL Genomics.
- In vitro diagnosis system: Sample delivery to OWL Genomics laboratory .
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Last update: 07/29/2010
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