Diagnostic performance of procalcitonin for bacterial infection in severe alcoholic hepatitis compared with C-reactive protein
Min Kyu Kang, Yu Rim Lee, Soo Young Park, Kwang Il Seo, Sang Soo Lee, Byung Seok Kim, Jeong Eun Song, Jun Sik Yoon, Young Mi Hong, Ki Tae Yoon, Woo Jin Chung, Seung Ha Park, Eunju Kim, Kyung Ran Jun, Jung Gil Park, Yang-Hyun Baek, Nae-Yun Heo · 2024
Read Diagnostic performance of procalcitonin for bacterial infection in severe alcoholic hepatitis compared with C-reactive protein by Min Kyu Kang, Yu Rim Lee, Soo Young Park, Kwang Il Seo, Sang Soo Lee, Byung Seok Kim, Jeong Eun Song, Jun Sik Yoon, Young Mi Hong, Ki Tae Yoon, Woo Jin Chung, Seung Ha Park, Eunju Kim, Kyung Ran Jun, Jung Gil Park, Yang-Hyun Baek, Nae-Yun Heo (2024) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11587759.txt.
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Min Kyu Kang led a large team testing an infection marker in severe alcoholic hepatitis in a 2024 study. This liver disease kills a large share of patients within a month, and bacterial infection worsens the outlook but is hard to spot fast. They compared two blood markers at admission across ten medical centers, checking which better flagged infection, a body-wide response, and sepsis.
Patients with infection had higher severity scores and higher levels of both markers. The newer marker scored somewhat better than the standard one for infection and clearly better for sepsis, though the infection gap was not firm. The authors see a trend favoring the newer marker for early detection.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Min Kyu Kang, Yu Rim Lee, Soo Young Park, Kwang Il Seo, Sang Soo Lee, Byung Seok Kim, Jeong Eun Song, Jun Sik Yoon, Young Mi Hong, Ki Tae Yoon, Woo Jin Chung, Seung Ha Park, Eunju Kim, Kyung Ran Jun, Jung Gil Park, Yang-Hyun Baek, Nae-Yun Heo |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |