Procalcitonin Identifies Cell Injury, Not Bacterial Infection, in Acute Liver Failure.

Procalcitonin Identifies Cell Injury, Not Bacterial Infection, in Acute Liver Failure.

Because acute liver failure (ALF) patients share many clinical features with severe sepsis and septic shock, identifying bacterial infection clinically in ALF patients is challenging. Procalcitonin (PCT) has proven to be a useful marker in detecting bacterial infection. We sought to determine whethe...

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Main Authors: Jody A Rule, Linda S Hynan, Nahid Attar, Corron Sanders, William J Korzun, William M Lee, Acute Liver Failure Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4579124?pdf=render

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