UNLABELLED Procalcitonin (PCT) has emerged as a marker of infection, a frequent complication in hemodialysis (HD). We analyzed PCT levels in chronic non-acutely infected HD subjects, assessed its correlation with inflammatory and nutritional markers and propose a PCT reference value for non-infected HD patients. In an observational cross-sectional study, 48 chronic HD patients and 36 controls w...

OBJECTIVES Procalcitonin (PCT) is a 13 kD protein of which plasma concentrations are strongly increased in inflammatory states. PCT concentrations are claimed to have a more powerful discriminatory value for bacterial infection than the acute phase proteins serum amyloid A (SAA) or C-reactive protein (CRP). The source of production and its mechanism of induction are unknown. We investigated the...

introduction: about one third of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis (tb) and each year, about 1.5 to 2 million people die from tb. procalcitonin (pct) is an inflammatory marker that its level has variable materials and methods: this conducted on patients with pulmonary tb. data were collected using a check list. the serum level of pct was measured by elisa test at the beg...

Whether the levels of procalcitonin (PCT) in the serum and synovial fluid are effective indicators for distinguishing septic arthritis (SA) from non-infectious arthritis remains controversial. The present study aimed to evaluate whether PCT levels in fresh serum or fresh joint fluid may be used in the differential diagnosis of SA from rheumatoid arthritis (RA), osteoarthritis (OA) and gouty art...

OBJECTIVE To study the application value of procalcitonin (PCT) in patients with central nervous system (CNS) infection. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 66 patients, including 24 patients with suppurative meningitis, 20 patients with viral meningitis and 22 patients with tuberculous meningitis, were enrolled. 20 patients admitted to the hospital due to epilepsy or headache without infection i...

Procalcitonin (PCT) serum concentration increases abnormally in bacteremia, severe sepsis and septic shock and was described as an inflamation-induced protein. The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical application of PCT-Q test for determination procalcitonin (PCT) serum level in patients with suspected sepsis. Fifty six patients according the criteria for sepsis (ACCP/SCCM,1992) and 19...

The concentration of immunoreactive uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase has been measured in erythrocytes from 17 patients with porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) from 10 families, from 74 of their relatives, and from 47 control subjects. The 10 families were divided into two groups according to their erythrocyte enzyme concentrations. Group A contained four families in which at least two subjects had ov...

BACKGROUND The reported sensitivities and specificities of procalcitonin (PCT) concentrations for the diagnosis of neonatal infection vary widely. A postnatal increase of PCT has been observed in healthy term newborns with a peak at approximately 24 h of age, and many questions remain regarding maternal and perinatal factors that may influence the normal PCT kinetics during the immediate postna...

background procalcitonin (pct) levels are increased in sepsis. in most previously conducted research, pct levels were found to increase during septic shock. objectives the purpose of this study was to compare pct levels with crp and esr levels in children with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs), sepsis, and septic shock. methods this cross-sectional study was conducted between decem...

BACKGROUND Procalcitonin (PCT) has become a commonly used serum inflammatory marker. Our aim was to describe the kinetics and usefulness of serial post-operative PCT measurements to detect bacterial infection in a cohort of children immediately after pediatric liver transplantation (pLT). METHODS We performed a retrospective chart review of a cohort of pLT recipients with serial serum PCT mea...