Evaluation of serum and cerebrospinal fluid copeptin as biomarkers in children with febrile seizures, febrile illness without seizures, and meningitis: an exploratory study
Halil Uğur Hatipoğlu, Cevher Kızılırmak, Murat Elevli · 2026
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Halil Uğur Hatipoğlu, Cevher Kızılırmak, and Murat Elevli measure a stress-related peptide in children with fever in a 2026 exploratory study. Copeptin was measured in blood and spinal fluid of children who had fever seizures, fever without seizures, or meningitis, and blood levels were also taken in healthy controls. All patient groups had undergone spinal tap in the emergency department for clinical reasons.
Blood copeptin was significantly higher in the fever seizure group than in the fever-only group and in healthy controls. Blood and spinal fluid levels correlated weakly, and two routine measures independently predicted spinal fluid levels. Spinal fluid testing added nothing over blood testing for telling the groups apart. The authors caution that the meningitis group was very small, so those findings need careful interpretation.
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| CREATOR | Halil Uğur Hatipoğlu, Cevher Kızılırmak, Murat Elevli |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42212 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |