… Procalcitonin (PCT) has emerged as a valuable marker of sepsis. The potential role of PCT
in diagnosis and therapy monitoring of intravascular catheter-related bloodstream infections (…

… Nevertheless, the relative value of marker changes for predicting response to antibiotic
treatment in bloodstream infections has barely been studied. Apart from this, analyzing kinetics …

… bloodstream infections (CRBSI) are the infections with the highest incidence of MDR infections
(30%-50%)16, we studied the kinetics … numbers of MDR and SB infection episodes17, 18. …

… Kinetics of serum procalcitonin in patient subgroups Procalcitonin kinetics was expressed as
… The kinetics of PCT level for survivors vs. non-survivors subgroups was presented in Table …

… positive blood culture was obtained. Two distinct episodes of bloodstream infection were
considered in one patient if at least 6 days had elapsed between the two sets of positive blood …

Procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) are commonly used biomarkers, but their
diagnostic advantage for neonatal early-onset (EOS) or late-onset (LOS) sepsis is …

… The purpose was to investigate the value of procalcitonin (PCT) kinetics in predicting the …
Of 209 patients, infection was confirmed in 67%. Procalcitonin kinetics were different between …

… Procalcitonin and procalcitonin kinetics for diagnosis and prognosis of intravascular
catheter-related bloodstream infections in selected critically ill patients: a prospective observational …

… was to test whether procalcitonin kinetics can be used to … Procalcitonin and its kinetics as
a way to assess clinical … Our findings suggest that procalcitonin kinetics within the first 72 h of …

… , classified episodes into either blood contamination due to CoNS or bloodstream infection
due to CoNS (without other focus of infection). The infectious disease specialist was blinded …