The role of serum procalcitonin levels in predicting ascitic fluid infection in hospitalized cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic patients

International Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1367-1374

  Cekin, Yesim ^a   Hilmi Cekin, Ayhan ^a   Duman, Adil ^a   Yilmaz, Ustun ^a   Yesil, Bayram ^a   Oguz Yolcular, Basak ^b  

^a Department of Microbiology Antalya Training and Research Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ascitic fluid infection; Cirrhosis; Cut off value; Hospitalized patients; Malignancy; Procalcitonin

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASCITES FLUID; BACTERASCITES; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGN ASCITES; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; STERILE ASCITES; AGED; BLOOD; FIBROSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; ASCITIC FLUID; CALCITONIN; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN PRECURSORS;

EID: 84883027082     PISSN: 14491907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/ijms.6014     Document Type: Article

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