High Levels of Soluble C5b-9 Complex in Dialysis Fluid May Predict Poor Prognosis in Peritonitis in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients.

We searched for indicators to predict the prognosis of infectious peritonitis by measuring levels of complement proteins and activation products in peritoneal dialysis (PD) fluid (PDF) of patients at early stages of peritonitis. We retrospectively analyzed the relationship between the levels of sC5b...

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Main Authors: Masashi Mizuno, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Keiko Higashide, Yumi Sei, Daiki Iguchi, Fumiko Sakata, Masanobu Horie, Shoichi Maruyama, Seiichi Matsuo, B Paul Morgan, Yasuhiko Ito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5207753?pdf=render