Usefulness of procalcitonin in the diagnosis of infection in lung transplant patients;Utilidad de la procalcitonina en el diagnóstico de la infección del paciente trasplantado pulmonar

Medicina Intensiva

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 358-359

  Suberviola Canas B ^a   Gonzalez Castro A ^a   Holanda Pena M S ^a   Fernandez Miret B ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEVER; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

CALCITONIN; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN PRECURSORS;

EID: 70349422109     PISSN: 02105691     EISSN: 15786749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2008.10.001     Document Type: Letter

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