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Diagnostic value and prognostic implications of serum procalcitonin after cardiac surgery: a systematic review of the literature

Christoph Sponholz, Yasser Sakr, Konrad Reinhart* and Frank Brunkhorst

Critical Care 2006, 10:R145 doi:10.1186/cc5067

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Procalcitonin for diagnosis of infection and guide to antibiotic decisions: past, present and future

Philipp Schuetz, Werner Albrich, Beat Mueller BMC Medicine 2011, 9:107 (22 September 2011)

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Mueller and colleagues kick off our new thematic series on Clinical Biomarkers with a review on the utility of procalcitonin in the diagnosis of bacterial infection and decisions about antibiotic treatment in different clinical settings.

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Effect of cardiopulmonary bypass on activated partial thromboplastin time waveform analysis, serum procalcitonin and C-reactive protein concentrations

Bertrand Delannoy, Marie-Laurence Guye, Davy Slaiman, Jean-Jacques Lehot, Maxime Cannesson Critical Care 2009, 13:R180 (13 November 2009)

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Marked increase of procalcitonin after the administration of anti-thymocyte globulin in patients before hematopoietic stem cell transplantation does not indicate sepsis: a prospective study

Helena Brodska, Tomas Drabek, Karin Malickova, Antonin Kazda, Antonin Vitek, Tomas Zima, Marketa Markova Critical Care 2009, 13:R37 (16 March 2009)

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Antimicrobial treatment for ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis: a randomized, controlled, multicenter study

Saad Nseir, Raphaël Favory, Elsa Jozefowicz, Franck Decamps, Florent Dewavrin, Guillaume Brunin, Christophe Di Pompeo, Daniel Mathieu, Alain Durocher, Critical Care 2008, 12:R62 (2 May 2008)

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Acute-phase reactants after paediatric cardiac arrest. Procalcitonin as marker of immediate outcome

Marta Los Arcos, Corsino Rey, Andrés Concha, Alberto Medina, Belen Prieto BMC Pediatrics 2008, 8:18 (30 April 2008)