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SUBMITTER: Huang YT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7355446 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huang Ya-Ting YT Lai Min-Yu MY Kan Wei-Chih WC Shiao Chih-Chung CC
Journal of clinical medicine 20200621 6
It is unclear whether serum procalcitonin (PCT) levels rise in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI), and it is also unclear whether the elevation of PCT levels in this setting is independent of the existence of infection and impaired renal clearance. We conducted a retrospective study in a regional teaching hospital in Taiwan to evaluate the AKI-predictive ability of serum PCT among critically ill patients. We enrolled 330 patients (mean age, 70.5 ± 16.4 years; 57.0% men) who were admitted to ...[more]