Utility of Serum Procalcitonin for Diagnosis of Sepsis and Evaluation of Severity |
Park, Tae-Jin
(Department of Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
Lim, Chae-Man (Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine) Koh, Youn-Suck (Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine) Hong, Sang-Bum (Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine) |
1 | Christ-Crain M, Muller B. Biomarkers in respiratory tract infections: diagnostic guides to antibiotic prescription, prognostic markers and mediators. Eur Respir J 2007; 30:556-73. DOI ScienceOn |
2 | Christ-Crain M, Muller B. Procalcitonin in bacterial infections-- hype, hope, more or less? Swiss Med Wkly 2005;135:451-60. |
3 | Herzum I, Renz H. Inflammatory markers in SIRS, sepsis and septic shock. Curr Med Chem 2008;15:581-7. DOI ScienceOn |
4 | Rau BM, Kemppainen EA, Gumbs AA, Buchler MW, Wegscheider K, Bassi C, et al. Early assessment of pancreatic infections and overall prognosis in severe acute pancreatitis by procalcitonin (PCT): a prospective international multicenter study. Ann Surg 2007;245:745-54. DOI ScienceOn |
5 | Whang KT, Steinwald PM, White JC, Nylen ES, Snider RH, Simon GL, et al. Serum calcitonin precursors in sepsis and systemic inflammation. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998;83:3296-301. DOI ScienceOn |
6 | Nakamura A, Wada H, Ikejiri M, Hatada T, Sakurai H, Matsushima Y, et al. Efficacy of procalcitonin in the early diagnosis of bacterial infections in a critical care unit. Shock 2009;31:586-91. |
7 | Sandri MT, Passerini R, Leon ME, Peccatori FA, Zorzino L, Salvatici M, et al. Procalcitonin as a useful marker of infection in hemato-oncological patients with fever. Anticancer Res 2008;28:3061-5. |
8 | Christ-Crain M, Jaccard-Stolz D, Bingisser R, Gencay MM, Huber PR, Tamm M, et al. Effect of procalcitonin-guided treatment on antibiotic use and outcome in lower respiratory tract infections: cluster-randomised, single-blinded intervention trial. Lancet 2004;363:600-7. DOI ScienceOn |
9 | Stocker M, Fontana M, El Helou S, Wegscheider K, Berger TM. Use of procalcitonin-guided decision-making to shorten antibiotic therapy in suspected neonatal early-onset sepsis: prospective randomized intervention trial. Neonatology 2010;97:165-74. DOI ScienceOn |
10 | Meng FS, Su L, Tang YQ, Wen Q, Liu YS, Liu ZF. Serum procalcitonin at the time of admission to the ICU as a predictor of short-term mortality. Clin Biochem 2009;42:1025-31. DOI ScienceOn |
11 | Assicot M, Gendrel D, Carsin H, Raymond J, Guilbaud J, Bohuon C. High serum procalcitonin concentrations in patients with sepsis and infection. Lancet 1993;341: 515-8. DOI ScienceOn |
12 | Rangel-Frausto MS, Pittet D, Costigan M, Hwang T, Davis CS, Wenzel RP. The natural history of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). A prospective study. JAMA 1995;273:117-23. DOI ScienceOn |
13 | Hong SK, Hong SB, Lim CM, Koh Y. The characteristics and prognostic factors of severe sepsis in patients who were admitted to a medical intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital. Korean J Crit Care Med 2009;24:28-32. DOI ScienceOn |
14 | Vincent JL, Bihari D. Sepsis, severe sepsis or sepsis syndrome: need for clarification. Intensive Care Med 1992; 18:255-7. DOI ScienceOn |
15 | American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus Conference: definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis. Crit Care Med 1992;20:864-74. DOI ScienceOn |
16 | Meisner M, Muller V, Khakpour Z, Toegel E, Redl H. Induction of procalcitonin and proinflammatory cytokines in an anhepatic baboon endotoxin shock model. Shock 2003;19:187-90. DOI ScienceOn |
17 | Knaus WA, Draper EA, Wagner DP, Zimmerman JE. APACHE II: a severity of disease classification system. Crit Care Med 1985;13:818-29. DOI ScienceOn |
18 | Vincent JL, Moreno R, Takala J, Willatts S, De Mendonça A, Bruining H, et al. The SOFA (Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment) score to describe organ dysfunction/failure. On behalf of the Working Group on Sepsis-Related Problems of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Intensive Care Med 1996;22:707-10. DOI ScienceOn |
19 | Becker KL, Nylen ES, White JC, Muller B, Snider RH Jr. Clinical review 167: Procalcitonin and the calcitonin gene family of peptides in inflammation, infection, and sepsis: a journey from calcitonin back to its precursors. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004;89:1512-25. DOI ScienceOn |