Is procalcitonin useful to differentiate rejection from bacterial infection in the early post-operative period of liver transplantation in children?

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1004-1006

  Mendonça Coelho, Maria Cecília ^a   Tannuri, Uenis ^a   Aoun Tannuri, Ana Cristina ^a   Reingenheim, Claudio ^a   Troster, Eduardo Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCALCITONIN;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 73349101038     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2008.01102.x     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Muller B, White JC, Nylen ES, et al. Ubiquitous expression of the calcitonin-i gene in multiple tissues in response to sepsis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2001 : 86 : 396 404.
2. Reinhart K, Karzai W, Meisner M. Procalcitonin as a marker of the systemic inflammatory response to infection. Intensive Care Med 2000 : 26 : 1193 1200. (Pubitemid 30743878)
3. Assicot M, Gendrel D, Carsin H, et al. High serum procalcitonin concentrations in patients with sepsis and infection. Lancet 1993 : 341 : 515 518.
4. Fazakas J, Gondos T, Varga M, et al. Analysis of systemic and regional procalcitonin serum levels during liver transplantation. Transpl Int 2003 : 16 : 465 470.
5. Hammer C, Fraunberger P, Meiser B, et al. Procalcitonin: A new marker for diagnosis of acute rejection and nonviral infection of heart and lung transplant patients. Transplant Proc 2001 : 33 : 2204 2206.
6. Kuse ER, Langefeld I, Jaeger K, Kulpmann WR. Procalcitonin in fever of unknown origin after liver transplantation: A variable to differentiate acute rejection from infection. Crit Care Med 2000 : 28 : 555 559.
7. BANFF schema for grading liver allograft rejection: An international consensus document. Hepatology 1997 : 25 : 658 663.
8. Tannuri U, Mello ES, Carnevale FC, et al. Hepatic venous reconstruction in pediatric living-related donor liver transplantation - experience of a single center. Pediatr Transplant 2005 : 9 : 293 298.
9. Vogel M, Andert S, Muller M. Tissue polypeptide specific antigen, neopterin and CRP for monitoring heart transplant recipients. Clin Biochem 1994 : 28 : 291 296.
10. Carlson IH. New markers in serum for lymphocyte activation for predicting allograft rejection: Neopterin and soluble interleukin-2 receptor. Clin Lab Med 1992 : 12 : 99 111.
11. Tilg H, Nordberg J, Vogel W, et al. Circulating serum levels of interleukin 6 and C reactive protein after liver transplantation. Transplantation 1992 : 54 : 142 146.
12. McLaughlin PJ, Aikawa A, Davies HM, et al. Evaluation of sequential plasma and urinary tumor necrosis factor alpha levels. Transplantation 1991 : 51 : 1225 1229.
13. Kunz D, Pross M, Konig W, et al. Diagnostic relevance of procalcitonin, IL-6 and cellular immune status in the early phase after liver transplantation. Transplant Proc 1998 : 30 : 2398 2399.
14. Gerard Y, Hober D, Assicot M, et al. Procalcitonin as a marker of bacterial sepsis in patients infected with HIV-1. J Infection 1997 : 35 : 41 46.