Diagnostic and prognostic value of procalcitonin among febrile critically ill patients with prolonged ICU stay

BACKGROUND: Procalcitonin (PCT) has been proposed as a diagnostic and prognostic sepsis marker, but has never been validated in febrile patients with prolonged ICU stay. METHODS: Patients were included in the study provided they were hospitalised in the ICU for > 10 days, were free of infection a...

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Autores principales: Tsangaris, Iraklis, Plachouras, Diamantis, Kavatha, Dimitra, Gourgoulis, George Michael, Tsantes, Argirios, Kopterides, Petros, Tsaknis, George, Dimopoulou, Ioanna, Orfanos, Stylianos, Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Evangelos, Giamarellou, Helen, Armaganidis, Apostolos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803794/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20028533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-213

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803794/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20028533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-213

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