Presepsin levels in cirrhotic patients with bacterial infections and/or portal hypertension-related bleeding, presenting with or without acute kidney injury

BACKGROUND: Bacterial infections in cirrhotic patients remain a challenge. Presepsin has been proposed as a valuable sepsis biomarker. We aimed to assess plasma presepsin levels in uncomplicated cirrhotic patients and to correlate them with liver disease severity and complicating events, defined as...

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Autores principales: Elefsiniotis, Ioannis, Tsakiris, Stefanos A., Barla, Georgia, Tasovasili, Athanasia, Vrachatis, Dimitrios, Mavrogiannis, Christos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6102455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30174398
http://dx.doi.org/10.20524/aog.2018.0292

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