Procalcitonin in liver transplantation: Are high levels due to donors or recipients?

Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Eyraud, Daniel ^a   Ben Ayed, Saïd ^a   Tanguy, Marie Laure ^a   Vézinet, Corinne ^a   Siksik, Jean ^a   Bernard, Maguy ^a   Fratéa, Sylvia ^a   Movschin, Marie ^a   Vaillant, Jean Christophe ^a   Coriat, Pierre ^a   Hannoun, Laurent ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CATECHOLAMINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; FK 507; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; PROCALCITONIN; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DONOR SELECTION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DONOR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 48049117566     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc6942     Document Type: Article

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