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Procalcitonin for infections in the first week after pediatric liver transplantation

Contributors

Cousin, Vladimir; Lambert, Kalinka; Trabelsi, Shahar; Galetto-Lacour, Annick; Posfay Barbe, Klara; Wildhaber, Barbara; Mclin, Valérie Anne

Published in

BMC Infectious Diseases, vol. 17, no. 1, 149

Publication date

2017

Abstract

Procalcitonin (PCT) has become a commonly used serum inflammatory marker. Our aim was to describe the kinetics and usefulness of serial post-operative PCT measurements to detect bacterial infection in a cohort of children immediately after pediatric liver transplantation (pLT).

Keywords

  • Bacterial Infections/blood/diagnosis
  • Biomarkers/blood
  • Calcitonin/blood
  • Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide/blood
  • Child
  • Preschool
  • Early Diagnosis
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Liver Transplantation
  • Male
  • Peritonitis/blood/diagnosis
  • Postoperative Complications/blood/diagnosis
  • Predictive Value of Tests
  • Protein Precursors/blood
  • ROC Curve
  • Retrospective Studies

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UNIGE research groups

Citation (ISO format)

COUSIN, Vladimir et al. Procalcitonin for infections in the first week after pediatric liver transplantation. In: BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017, vol. 17, n° 1, p. 149. doi: 10.1186/s12879-017-2234-y

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1471-2334
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