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Diagnostic value of Pentraxin-3 in patients with sepsis and septic shock in accordance with latest sepsis-3 definitions

BACKGROUND: Pentraxin-3 (PTX-3) is an acute-phase protein involved in inflammatory and infectious processes. This study assesses its diagnostic and prognostic value in patients with sepsis or septic shock in a medical intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS: The study includes 213 ICU patients with clini...

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Autores principales: Hamed, Sonja, Behnes, Michael, Pauly, Dominic, Lepiorz, Dominic, Barre, Max, Becher, Tobias, Lang, Siegfried, Akin, Ibrahim, Borggrefe, Martin, Bertsch, Thomas, Hoffmann, Ursula
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5550951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28793880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2606-3