Procalcitonin is not an independent predictor of 30-day mortality, albeit predicts pneumonia severity in patients with pneumonia acquired outside the hospital

BACKGROUND: Procalcitonin (PCT) is a useful marker for pneumonia. However, its clinical usefulness in elderly patients has not been studied extensively. This study aimed to assess the relationship between PCT and prognosis and pneumonia severity in elderly patients with pneumonia acquired outside th...

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Autores principales: Akagi, Takanori, Nagata, Nobuhiko, Miyazaki, Hiroyuki, Harada, Taishi, Takeda, Satoshi, Yoshida, Yuji, Wada, Kenji, Fujita, Masaki, Watanabe, Kentaro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6323702/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30616612
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-1008-8

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