Diagnostic and prognostic significance of serum C-reactive protein levels in patients admitted to the Department of Medicine

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 337, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 248-255

  Keshet, Rom ^a   Boursi, Ben ^a   Maoz, Ramit ^a   Shnell, Matti ^a   Guzner Gur, Hanan ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

CRP; ESR; Infection; Inflammation; Internal medicine

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTERITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTUBATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TUBERCULOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; BLOOD; HOSPITALIZATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65549137637     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e31818af6de     Document Type: Article

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