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Procalcitonin for infections in the first week after pediatric liver transplantation

Published inBMC Infectious Diseases, vol. 17, no. 1, 149
Publication date2017
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
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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