Marked Elevation in Serum Procalcitonin Levels Do Not Correlate With Severity of Disease or Mortality in Hospitalized Patients: A Retrospective Study

BACKGROUND: Bacteremia and sepsis are significant contributors to the morbidity, mortality, and economic burden of health care systems worldwide. Procalcitonin has been identified as a potentially useful marker of disease and severity in sepsis. However, the assumption that greater procalcitonin lev...

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Autores principales: Durrance, Richard J, Ullah, Tofura, Patel, Harsh, Martinez, Grace, Cervellione, Kelly, Zafonte, Veronica B, Gafoor, Khalid, Bagheri, Farshad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7232048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32476970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1177271920917941

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7232048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32476970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1177271920917941

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