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Aclarion Announces Publication of Compelling Peer-Reviewed Data in International Journal of Spine Surgery Supporting Nociscan as a Gold Standard for Noninvasive Identification of Painful Lumbar Discs
Confirms predictive value of Nociscan for identifying painful discs. Nociscan demonstrated a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 80% compared to
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[{"type":"text","content":"Confirms predictive value of Nociscan for identifying painful discs.\nNociscan demonstrated a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 80% compared to provocative discography (PD), suggesting Nociscan provides better information to surgeons.\nBROOMFIELD, CO - (NewMediaWire) - March 04, 2024 - Aclarion, Inc., (\"Aclarion\" or the \"Company\") (Nasdaq: ACON, ACONW), a healthcare technology company that is leveraging biomarkers and proprietary augmented intelligence algorithms to help physicians identify the location of chronic low back pain, announced today the publication of the clinical paper, Establishing a Gold Standard for Noninvasive Identification of Painful Lumbar Discs: Prospective Comparison of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy vs Low-Pressure Provocation Discography by the International Journal of Spine Surgery, the official scientific journal of the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery (ISASS).\nVerifying lumbar disc pain has been a clinical challenge. Low-pressure provocative discography (PD) has served as the gold standard, despite well-documented drawbacks including being highly invasive and presenting difficult-to-interpret results. Despite the small sample size of the study, this newly published prospective comparison study clearly demonstrates that Nociscan results accurately identify discs that are known to be painful according to provocative discogram. \nAchieving a result of 100% sensitivity (5/5 lumbar discs) means that in this study if discography indicates a disc is painful, then Nociscan will also indicate that the disc is painful. On the other hand, with a specificity of 80% (8/10 lumbar discs), this means that when discography indicates a disc is not-painful, Nociscan will disagree 20% of the time by indicating the disc actually contains the biomarkers consistent with a painful disc. \nThe Company believes it is this ability of Nociscan to objectively measure pain biomarkers that gives surgeons better information than discogram to inform their surgical decision making. The Company further believes that this differentiation from discogram is the reason Aclarion was able to demonstrate improved surgical outcomes with Nociscan in the Gornet study. \nRyan Bond, Chief Strategy Officer, Aclarion stated, \"This prospective comparison of Nociscan against the historical benchmark, provocative ...