Plevniak Kimberly, Campbell Matthew, Myers Timothy, Hodges Abby, He Mei
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Kansas State University , Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
Advanced Manufacturing Institute, Kansas State University , Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
Biomicrofluidics. 2016 Oct 5;10(5):054113. doi: 10.1063/1.4964499. eCollection 2016 Sep.
Clinical diagnosis requiring central facilities and site visits can be burdensome for patients in resource-limited or rural areas. Therefore, development of a low-cost test that utilizes smartphone data collection and transmission would beneficially enable disease self-management and point-of-care (POC) diagnosis. In this paper, we introduce a low-cost POC diagnostic strategy which integrates 3D design and printing of microfluidic POC device with smartphone-based disease diagnosis in one process as a stand-alone system, offering strong adaptability for establishing diagnostic capacity in resource-limited areas and low-income countries. We employ smartphone output (AutoCAD 360 app) and readout (color-scale analytical app written in-house) functionalities for rapid 3D printing of microfluidic auto-mixers and colorimetric detection of blood hemoglobin levels. The auto-mixing of reagents with blood via capillary force has been demonstrated in 1 second without the requirement of external pumps. We employed this POC system for point-of-care diagnosis of anemia using a training set of patients (n = 16 and n = 6), which showed consistent measurements of blood hemoglobin levels (a.u.c. = 0.97) and comparable diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, compared with standard clinical hematology analyzer. Capable of 3D fabrication flexibility and smartphone compatibility, this work presents a novel diagnostic strategy for advancing personalized medicine and mobile healthcare.
对于资源有限地区或农村地区的患者而言,需要借助中心设施和实地访视的临床诊断可能会带来负担。因此,开发一种利用智能手机进行数据收集和传输的低成本检测方法,将有利于实现疾病的自我管理和即时诊断(POC)。在本文中,我们介绍了一种低成本的即时诊断策略,该策略将微流控即时诊断设备的3D设计与打印与基于智能手机的疾病诊断整合在一个过程中,形成一个独立的系统,为在资源有限地区和低收入国家建立诊断能力提供了强大的适应性。我们利用智能手机的输出功能(AutoCAD 360应用程序)和读数功能(内部编写的比色分析应用程序),实现微流控自动混合器的快速3D打印以及血液血红蛋白水平的比色检测。已证明通过毛细作用力可在1秒内实现试剂与血液的自动混合,无需外部泵。我们使用该即时诊断系统对一组患者(n = 16和n = 6)进行贫血的即时诊断,与标准临床血液学分析仪相比,该系统对血液血红蛋白水平的测量结果一致(曲线下面积 = 0.97),且诊断敏感性和特异性相当。这项工作具有3D制造灵活性和智能手机兼容性,为推进个性化医疗和移动医疗保健提供了一种新颖的诊断策略。