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Procalcitonin as a marker of sepsis in hospitalised elderly
... for sepsis inluding CRP and Procalcitonin, Microbiological cultures from the suspected sources of infection were also done on ...of Procalcitonin in the diagnosis and prognosis of sepsis in ...
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Multi-marker approach using procalcitonin, presepsin, galectin-3, and soluble suppression of tumorigenicity 2 for the prediction of mortality in sepsis
... with sepsis; 45 patients with septic shock). Procalcitonin (PCT), presepsin, galectin‑3, and soluble suppression of tumorigenicity 2 (sST2) concentrations were analyzed in relation to the 30‑day all‑cause ...
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Objective: To study the ROLE OF SERUM PROCALCITONIN AS A MARKER OF NEONATAL SEPSIS
... suspected sepsis were studied during 1 year from Jan 2016 to Dec 2016 in Chaitanaya Hospital ...Conventional sepsis workup was done in all cases and the diagnosis of neonatal sepsis was proved based ...
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Study of serum levels of CRP and procalcitonin as early marker of sepsis in children with sepsis above neonatal age group
... inflammatory marker, has been added to the set of hematological tests (total leukocyte count, neutrophils, band form counts) that have long been used in clinical ...prohormone procalcitonin (PCT) has seldom ...
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Procalcitonin is not sufficiently reliable to be the sole marker of neonatal sepsis of nosocomial origin
... neonatal sepsis, and none of them is a multi- center ...study, procalcitonin seems to be an interesting marker of neonatal sepsis (early PCT peak compared with CRP), data to estimate ...
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Procalcitonin as an Early and Reliable Marker of Neonatal Sepsis
... of procalcitonin, interleukin-6 and hs-CRP in prediction of early onset neonatal sepsis in Vali-e-Asr hospital affiliated to Tehram university of medical science, ...of sepsis or maternal risk factor ...
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Procalcitonin – A Reliable Marker for Diagnosis of Neonatal Sepsis in Compare to CRP
... In the present study, the sensitivity of PCT for detecting sepsis (more than 500 pg/ml) was 48.6%, its specificity 76.3%, its positive predictive value was 66.7% and negative predictive value was 60% and the ...
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Procalcitonin: a promising diagnostic marker for sepsis and antibiotic therapy
... of sepsis for saving lives. Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) that affect all ...of sepsis development that helps in identifying relevant biomarkers to diagnose sepsis ...
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Role of serum procalcitonin as a marker for diagnosing neonatal sepsis
... Neonatal sepsis has subtle and nonspecific signs and ...neonatal sepsis, in the past. Amongst the newer ones, the serum procalcitonin (PCT) has been the ...
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Evaluation of procalcitonin for diagnosis of neonatal sepsis of vertical transmission
... Neonatal sepsis of vertical transmission remains a major problem associated with high morbidity and mortality in newborns, particularly amongst preterm infants ...of sepsis, and more recently, measurement ...
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Serum Procalcitonin as a Diagnostic Marker of Bacterial Infection in Febrile Children
... with sepsis, serum PCT concentration was significantly high above that of non infected children with SIRS following cardiopulmonary bypass surgery which had (AUC: ...states,namely sepsis and systemic ...
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Serum procalcitonin in pregnancy-associated sepsis: A case control study
... They found that mean (interquartile range (IQR) PCT levels were higher for the patients with bacterial infection (0.09 (0.05 - 0.022) µ/L) than for non-infected patients (0.05 (0.025-0.06) µ/L); p<0.0001) and patients ...
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Assessment of procalcitonin as a diagnostic marker of infection in pediatrics with cancer complicated by fever and neutropenia
... useful marker to predict bacterial sepsis in immunocompromised ...bacterial sepsis, PCT was determined to predict bacterial infection with the area under the curve (AUC) = ...a marker of ...
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Comparison of diagnostic and prognostic value of serum procalcitonin and serum lactate in pediatric sepsis
... Background: The clinical manifestations of sepsis are highly variable. The signs of both infection and organ dysfunction may be subtle, and thus the most recent international consensus guidelines provide a long ...
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Procalcitonin as a marker of infection in febrile neutropenia: A systematic review
... with sepsis and in- fection were first described in 1993 by Assicot and col- leagues ...promising marker of infection with a proposed higher sensitivity and specificity than traditional markers such as CRP ...
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The Utility of Procalcitonin as a Biomarker to Limit the Duration of Antibiotic Therapy in Adult Sepsis Patients
... In contrast, studies evaluating the use of serum PCT as a guide for de-escalation have demonstrated signifi- cant potential. Scheutz et al. [32] [82], Stolz et al. [83] and Luyt et al. [84] have all reported PCT-guided ...
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Procalcitonin as a marker of bacterial infection in the emergency department: an observational study
... severe sepsis than ...severe sepsis, for bacteremia, and for death at various cut-off ...severe sepsis, bacteremia, and death, thus giving rise to low PPVs? If this was the case, then again it ...
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Serum Procalcitonin is a sensitive and specific marker in the diagnosis of septic arthritis and acute osteomyelitis
... promising marker in diagnosing bac- terial infections with its high ...like sepsis, upper respiratory tract infections, pneumonias, pancreatitis, pyelonephritis, burns and in various other conditions ...
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Assessment of Calprotectin as a Serodiagnostic Marker for Neonatal Sepsis
... The golden standard for diagnosis of septicemia is the isolation of bacterial agents from the blood culture. Unfortunately, results are usually not available before 48-72 hours and could be negative in many situations ...
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Assessment of diagnostic validity of Procalcitonin in burns sepsis patients: A prospective study
... of procalcitonin (PCT) in sepsis patients due to ...for sepsis in burns were used as reference ...of sepsis based on ABA criteria was underestimated and delayed in starting the antibiotic ...
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