Procalcitonin for differential diagnosis of graft rejection and infection in patients with heart and/or lung grafts

Intensive Care Medicine, Supplement

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages

  Hammer, S ^a   Meisner, F ^a   Dirschedl, P ^a   Fraunberger, P ^a   Meiser, B ^a   Reichart, B ^a   Hammer, C ^a  

^a InstClinChem   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Heart transplantation; Infection; Lung transplantation; Procalcitonin

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOPSY; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIATION; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART GRAFT; IMMUNOASSAY; LUMINESCENCE; SEPSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0034111530     PISSN: 09351701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02900735     Document Type: Article

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