Serum inflammatory markers in the elderly: Are they useful in differentiating sepsis from SIRS?

Acta Medica Iranica

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 438-442

  Talebi Taher, Mahshid ^a   Babazadeh, Shahin ^a   Barati, Mitra ^a   Latifnia, Maryam ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

C reactive protein; ESR; IL 6; PCT; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROCALCITONIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; BLOOD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; ROC CURVE; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 84904193909     PISSN: 00446025     EISSN: 17359694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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