#PAGE_PARAMS# #ADS_HEAD_SCRIPTS# #MICRODATA#

Prokalcitonin - the Sensitive and Specific Marker of Severe Bacterial Intlammation


Authors: Průcha Ml.;  R. Zazula;  J. Hyánek 2 1
Authors‘ workplace: lOddělení klinické biochemie, hematologie a imunologie, Nemocnice Na Homolce, přednosta prof. MUDr. Josef Hyánek, DrSc. 2Klinika anesteziologie, resuscitace a intenzívní péče, Institut klinické a experimentální medicíny, přednosta MUDr. Roman Zazula, PhD.
Published in: Anest. intenziv. Med., , 2002, č. 2, s. 83-85
Category:

Overview

The differential diagnosis of infectious and noninfectious ethiology of an injlammation is difficult problem in many clinical situations. In the nineties new important marker - procalcitonin - appears. Although its physiological role and regulation of its production is not sufficiently explained, procalcitonin has been shown to be important, sensitive and specific marker of the bacterial infection triggering a systemicinjlammatory reaction in the body. Nowadays procalcitonin is believed to be more specific marker of the severity of sepsis than interleukin-h or C-reactive protein. The determination of procalcitonin concentration is of important value for the diagnostic algorithm in critically ill patienxs and for antibiotic therapy.

Key words:
procalcitonin - sepsis - systemic injlammatory response syndrom - differential diagnosis

Full text is not available online.
If interested in a scan of this journal, contact NTO ČLS JEP.

Labels
Anaesthesiology, Resuscitation and Inten Intensive Care Medicine
Topics Journals
Login
Forgotten password

Enter the email address that you registered with. We will send you instructions on how to set a new password.

Login

Don‘t have an account?  Create new account

#ADS_BOTTOM_SCRIPTS#