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AspenBio Pharma is focused on obtaining FDA clearance for its lead product, AppyScore™, which is a unique blood-based test in the final stages of development. AppyScore is designed to help physicians manage the large number of children and adolescents who enter emergency departments of hospitals each year complaining of abdominal pain, many suspected of having acute appendicitis. Abdominal pain is a high-volume, potentially high-risk complaint which represents one of the main reasons for emergency department visits. Acute appendicitis is the number one reason for emergency abdominal surgery.

"At AspenBio we believe there is a significant unmet clinical need which has been consistently affirmed by numerous emergency physicians for a simple blood test to be used when signs and symptoms of acute appendicitis are present that can provide physicians with an objective test to aid in the identification of patients that are at low risk for the disease. A negative AppyScore™ test result could be helpful to physicians in determining if certain patients should be conservatively managed and thereby potentially avoid exposure to radiation from a CT scan."

 

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We expect that if AppyScore™ receives regulatory clearance it will be used to aid emergency physicians in managing a large number of patients complaining of abdominal pain suspicious for appendicitis. Currently, CT scans are often used to help diagnose or rule out acute appendicitis, but this exposes patients to ionizing radiation and comes at a high monetary cost. This is particularly alarming when performed in pediatric patients who are in their high growth period and are in the greatest danger of experiencing long term health risks from early age radiation exposure. The use of AppyScore™ could potentially avoid exposing lower risk patients to radiation from CT scans while also reducing cost. AspenBio's current focus is to clinically validate the performance of AppyScore™ in the emergency department's management of children and adolescents presenting with signs, symptoms, and history suggestive of acute appendicitis but who are believed to be at low risk of having the disease.

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