Procalcitonin Identifies Cell Injury, Not Bacterial Infection, in Acute Liver Failure

BACKGROUND: Because acute liver failure (ALF) patients share many clinical features with severe sepsis and septic shock, identifying bacterial infection clinically in ALF patients is challenging. Procalcitonin (PCT) has proven to be a useful marker in detecting bacterial infection. We sought to dete...

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Autores principales: Rule, Jody A., Hynan, Linda S., Attar, Nahid, Sanders, Corron, Korzun, William J., Lee, William M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26393924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138566

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26393924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138566

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