LIAISON Elastase-1

Pancreatic insufficiency is the inability of the exocrine pancreas to produce and/or transport enough digestive enzymes to break down food in the intestine and facilitate absorption of nutrients. It typically occurs as a result of progressive pancreatic damage that may be caused by recurrent acute pancreatitis or by chronic pancreatitis due to a variety of conditions.
Failure in any of the digestive metabolic steps may be the result in pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI). Current methods for evaluating digestion, such as fecal fat quantification and the 13C-mixed triglycerides test, are the most used and known tests but are complicated and sometimes need long execution times. With the introduction of the new automated chemiluminescence assay LIAISON Elastase-1, testing is easier and quickly done avoiding complicated procedures and execution steps.

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LIAISON Elastase-1