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Acute-phase reactants after paediatric cardiac arrest. Procalcitonin as marker of immediate outcome
OBJECTIVE: Procalcitonin (PCT) and C reactive protein (CRP) have been used as infection parameters. PCT increase correlates with the infection's severity, course, and mortality. Post-cardiocirculatory arrest syndrome may be related to an early systemic inflammatory response, and may possibly be...
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BioMed Central
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2386781/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18447945 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-8-18 |