Diagnostic Accuracy of Liquid Biomarkers in Airway Diseases: Toward Point-of-Care Applications.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Liquid biomarkers have shown increasing utility in the clinical management of airway diseases. Salivary and blood samples are particularly amenable to point-of-care (POC) testing due to simple specimen collection and processing. However, very few POC tests have successfully progressed to clinical application due to the uncertainty and unpredictability surrounding their diagnostic accuracy.

Objective

To review liquid biomarkers of airway diseases with well-established diagnostic accuracies and discuss their prospects for future POC applications.

Methodology

A literature review of publications indexed in Medline or Embase was performed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of liquid biomarkers for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, laryngopha

SUBMITTER: Landry V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9207186 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature