The role of serum procalcitonin in establishing the diagnosis and prognosis of pleural infection

BACKGROUND: Bacterial pleural infection requires prompt identification to enable appropriate investigation and treatment. In contrast to commonly used biomarkers such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and white cell count (WCC), which can be raised due to non-infective inflammatory processes, procalcitoni...

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Autores principales: Dixon, Giles, Lama-Lopez, Adriana, Bintcliffe, Oliver J., Morley, Anna J., Hooper, Clare E., Maskell, Nick A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5291982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28158976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-017-0501-5

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