High ratio of C-reactive protein/procalcitonin predicts Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection among adults hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia

F Li, S Kong, K Xie, Y Zhang, P Yan… - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… viral pneumoniae (VP) etiologies of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). A retrospective
study of inpatients diagnosed with CAP at the First Affiliated Hospital of Dali University (Dali, …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnostic markers for community-acquired pneumonia

A Ito, T Ishida - Annals of translational medicine, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is one of the respiratory infectious diseases caused
… Recently, some inflammatory biomarkers such as procalcitonin (PCT), soluble triggering …

Role of procalcitonin in diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia in Children

VH Ratageri, P Panigatti, A Mukherjee, RR Das… - BMC pediatrics, 2022 - Springer
procalcitonin in differentiating bacterial community-acquired lower respiratory tract infection
from non-bacterial respiratory infection in children; radiologically confirmed pneumonia was …

Accuracy of biomarkers for the diagnosis of adult communityacquired pneumonia: a meta‐analysis

MH Ebell, M Bentivegna, X Cai… - Academic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… We found that the biomarkers CRP, procalcitonin, and white blood cell count had fair
accuracy for the diagnosis of CAP in adults. We identified a clear threshold effect for all three …

Clinical utility of serum procalcitonin in adult patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia in Ilorin, Nigeria

OB Ojuawo, AE Fawibe, OO Desalu… - Journal of the Pan …, 2021 - ajol.info
procalcitonin (PCT) in patients admitted with CAP in a tertiary hospital in Ilorin, Nigeria. …
values of admission procalcitonin levels in community-acquired pneumonia in an intensive care …

Diagnostic and prognostic roles of procalcitonin and other tools in community-acquired pneumonia: a narrative review

S Ozbay, M Ayan, O Ozsoy, C Akman, O Karcioglu - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pneumonia is the acute infectious process of the pulmonary parenchymal tissue.
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) … in the community, as opposed to nosocomial pneumonia

… Ratio: Could it be a Novel Marker Indicating Severity of Inflammation in Pneumonia? A Retrospective Study in Elderly Patients with Community-acquired Pneumonia

R Alanlı, MB Küçükay, S Yalçın - Geriatrik Bilimler Dergisi, 2020 - dergipark.org.tr
marker of infection and the level in the blood decreases in acute infections (6). Procalcitonin
has been shown to be a marker of … it has been found to be increased in severe pneumonia. …

Utility of procalcitonin for differentiating cryptogenic organising pneumonia from community-acquired pneumonia

A Ito, T Ishida, H Tachibana, M Arita… - Clinical Chemistry and …, 2019 - degruyter.com
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the leading cause of hospitalisation and …
Procalcitonin as a marker of etiology in adults hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia

[HTML][HTML] The utility of serial procalcitonin measurements in addition to pneumonia severity scores in hospitalised community-acquired pneumonia: A multicentre …

A Ito, I Ito, D Inoue, S Marumo, T Ueda… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
… The usefulness of serial procalcitonin (PCT) measurements for predicting the prognosis
and treatment efficacy for hospitalised community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients was …

The etiology of community-acquired pneumonia correlates with serum inflammatory markers in children

A Wrotek, J Robakiewicz, K Pawlik, P Rudzinski… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) severely affects pediatric hospitalizations. This study
assessed the contribution of CAP to hospitalizations, its etiology in relationship with age, …