Perioperative serum procalcitonin concentrations in patients with acute aortic dissection

European Surgical Research

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 451-454

  Kin, H ^a   Kawazoe, K ^a   Nakajima, T ^a   Niinuma, Hiroyuki ^a   Kataoka, T ^a   Endo, S ^a   Inada, K ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute aortic dissection; Procalcitonin; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS;

EID: 0042386342     PISSN: 0014312X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072231     Document Type: Article

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