The usefulness of pleural fluid presepsin, C-reactive protein, and procalcitonin in distinguishing different causes of pleural effusions

BACKGROUND: We aimed to determine the presepsin concentration in pleural fluid from patients with pleural effusions of different aetiologies and to compare its diagnostic value with that of pleural fluid C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT). METHODS: We enrolled 132 patients with pleural...

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Autores principales: Watanabe, Naoki, Ishii, Tomoya, Kita, Nobuyuki, Kanaji, Nobuhiro, Nakamura, Hiroyuki, Nanki, Nobuki, Ueda, Yutaka, Tojo, Yasunori, Kadowaki, Norimitsu, Bandoh, Shuji
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/PMC6251181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30470216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-018-0740-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6251181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30470216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-018-0740-3

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