Significance of serum procalcitonin levels in the evaluation of severity and prognosis of patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Chinese Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 294-297

  Huang, Wei Ping ^a   Jiang, Wen Qiang ^a   Hu, Bei ^a   Ye, Heng ^a   Zeng, Hong Ke ^a  

^a GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Procalcitonin; Prognosis; Sepsis; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCITONIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 84862174663     PISSN: 10030603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1003-0603.2012.05.010     Document Type: Article

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