@inproceedings{c0ea6ea1fe98402db49d8385311f9eda,
title = "Performance of using deformability of endometrial cells as a diagnostic test for endometriosis",
abstract = "We present a microfluidic platform for less-invasive diagnosis of endometriosis based on measuring deformability of eutopic endometrial stromal cells. Primary endometrial cells from patients were found to travel inside a narrow microchannel at a significantly higher velocity (96.5 mm/s) compared to cells from disease free women (57.52 mm/s) (P value < 0.001). Using velocity of endometrial cells as a biomarker of endometriosis gave a sensitivity of 100%, and a specificity of 83%. Instead of doing a laparoscopic surgery, our test reduces cost of diagnosis of endometriosis to only few dollars with the proper setup.",
keywords = "Cell deformability, Diagnosis, Endometrial stromal cells, Endometriosis, Mechanobiology",
author = "Ahmad Altayyeb and Essam Othman and Maha Khashbah and Abdelhay Esmaeel and Mohamed El-Mokhtar and Cornelis Lambalk and Velja Mijatovic and Mohamed Abdelgawad",
year = "2019",
language = "English",
series = "23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2019",
publisher = "Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society",
pages = "1586--1587",
booktitle = "23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2019",
note = "23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2019 ; Conference date: 27-10-2019 Through 31-10-2019",
}