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Procalcitonin biomarker kinetics fails to predict treatment response in perioperative abdominal infection with septic shock

INTRODUCTION: Procalcitonin (PCT) biomarker is suggested to tailor antibiotic therapy in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) but studies in perioperative medicine are scarce. The aim of this study was to determine whether PCT reported thresholds are associated with the initial treatment response i...

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Autores principales: Jung, Boris, Molinari, Nicolas, Nasri, Mourad, Hajjej, Zied, Chanques, Gerald, Jean-Pierre, Helene, Panaro, Fabrizio, Jaber, Samir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4056026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24156734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc13082