Clinical Usefulness of Procalcitonin Measurement
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The clinical usefulness of procalcitonin measurement for assessing the severity of bacterial infection in critically ill patients requiring corticosteroid therapy.
UNLABELLED Markers of inflammation, such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and white blood cell count, have, because of their low specificity, proven far from ideal in identifying patients with sepsis. Procalcitonin (PCT) has been shown to be a useful marker for differentiating patients with bacterial infection from other acute inflammatory conditions. Corticosteroid therapy has been demonstrated to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Kansenshogaku Zasshi
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0387-5911,1884-569X
DOI: 10.11150/kansenshogakuzasshi.84.437