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Procalcitonin in liver transplant patients – yet another stone turned

Overview of attention for article published in Critical Care, January 2008
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Title
Procalcitonin in liver transplant patients – yet another stone turned
Published in
Critical Care, January 2008
DOI 10.1186/cc6221
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Authors

Jens-Ulrik Jensen, Jens D Lundgren

Abstract

Liver transplantation has been reported to initiate increases in procalcitonin levels, in the absence of bacterial infection. The results of a study investigating the course of procalcitonin levels over several days after liver transplantation in noninfected patients were recently reported in Critical Care. This study shows that procalcitonin levels increase only transiently, immediately after surgery, and thereafter they rapidly decrease. This new information gives us hope that procalcitonin can be used as a marker of bacterial infection in these patients. Further studies of patients undergoing liver transplantation with and without bacterial infection are needed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 25 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Postgraduate 7 28%
Other 6 24%
Researcher 4 16%
Lecturer 2 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 8%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 1 4%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 84%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 4%
Engineering 1 4%
Unknown 2 8%
Attention Score in Context

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#22,759,802
of 25,374,917 outputs
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#6,383
of 6,554 outputs
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#163,660
of 168,477 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Critical Care
#30
of 32 outputs
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