Calcitonin precursors are reliable markers of sepsis in a medical intensive care unit

By B. Müller, K. Becker, Hartmut Schächinger, P. Rickenbacher, P. Huber, W. Zimmerli, R. Ritz. Critical Care Medicine, 2000

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Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Epidemiology

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7. Michel Cucherat
8. P. Huber

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• Procalcitonin guidance of antibiotic therapy in community-acquired pneumonia: a randomized trial. (2006, background): “For this purpose it is more helpful than CRP and other laboratory markers (17, 32).”
• Serum procalcitonin and C-reactive protein levels as markers of bacterial infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2004, neutral): “[119] 103/3 9/40 97 (91–99) 82 (68–91) 73/0 37/43 100 (95–100) 54 (42–65) Muller [121] 52/3 6/40 95 (84–99) 87 (73–95) 41/9 17/34 82 (68–91) 67 (52–79) Penel et al.”
• Procalcitonin as a diagnostic test for sepsis in critically ill adults and after surgery or trauma: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2006, methodology): “Q* value for CRP 0.71; 95% CI, 0.64–0.76; corrected p .02, computed under the conservative hypothesis of a .5 correlation coefficient between PCT and CRP values).”