Is there a C-reactive protein value beyond which one should consider infection as the cause of acute heart failure?

BACKGROUND: Heart Failure (HF) is a low grade inflammatory condition. High sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) is an established marker of inflammation. A cut-off value of hsCRP beyond which an infection should be sought has never been studied in HF. We aimed to determine the best hsCRP cut-off f...

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Autores principales: Pereira, Joana, Ribeiro, Ana, Ferreira-Coimbra, João, Barroso, Isaac, Guimarães, João-Tiago, Bettencourt, Paulo, Lourenço, Patrícia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5827981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29482547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-018-0778-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5827981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29482547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-018-0778-4

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