Ability of Procalcitonin to Discriminate Infection from Non-Infective Inflammation Using Two Pleural Disease Settings

Procalcitonin has been shown to be useful in separating infection from non-infective disorders. However, infection is often paralleled by tissue inflammation. Most studies supporting the use of procalcitonin were confounded by more significant inflammation in the infection group. Few studies have ex...

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Autores principales: McCann, Fiona J., Chapman, Stephen J., Yu, Wai Cho, Maskell, Nick A., Davies, Robert J. O., Lee, Y. C. Gary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23251353
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049894

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23251353
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049894

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