Procalcitonin Identifies Cell Injury, Not Bacterial Infection, in Acute Liver Failure

Because acute liver failure (ALF) patients share many clinical features with severe sepsis and septic shock, identifying bacterial infection clinically in ALF patients is challenging. Procalcitonin (PCT) has proven to be a useful marker in detecting bacterial infection. We sought to determine whethe...

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Vydáno v:	PloS one Ročník 10; číslo 9; s. e0138566
Hlavní autoři:	Rule, Jody A., Hynan, Linda S., Attar, Nahid, Sanders, Corron, Korzun, William J., Lee, William M.
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	United States Public Library of Science 22.09.2015 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Témata:	Acetaminophen Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Analgesics Analysis Bacteria Bacterial diseases Bacterial infections Bacterial Infections - diagnosis Bacterial Infections - metabolism Bioindicators Biomarkers Biomarkers - metabolism Calcitonin - metabolism Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Cell culture Cell injury Data processing Disease control Etiology Failure Female Health aspects Humans Infection Infections Inflammation - diagnosis Inflammation - metabolism Internal medicine Laboratories Liver Liver diseases Liver failure Liver Failure, Acute - diagnosis Liver Failure, Acute - metabolism Male Medical research Medicine Middle Aged Patients Procalcitonin Prospective Studies Protein Precursors - metabolism Retrospective Studies Review boards Sepsis Sepsis - diagnosis Sepsis - metabolism Septic shock Severity of Illness Index Shock, Septic - diagnosis Shock, Septic - metabolism Studies Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome - diagnosis Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome - metabolism Thyroid gland Toxicity Young Adult United States > US Virginia Texas
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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