Use of Procalcitonin in Patients on Chronic Hemodialysis: Procalcitonin Is Not Related with Increased Serum Calcitonin

Objectives. To investigate whether procalcitonin (PCT) could be useful for detecting bacterial infections in patients on hemodialysis (HD) and with increased calcitonin (CT). Methods. This prospective study included 42 males and 34 females on HD. The infection group consisted of 15 patients with pro...

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Autores principales: Mori, Ken-Ichi, Noguchi, Mitsuru, Sumino, Yasuhiro, Sato, Fuminori, Mimata, Hiromitsu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scholarly Research Network 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3363985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22685675
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/431859

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3363985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22685675
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/431859

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