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01-04-2014 | Poster presentation
Diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of soluble CD14 subtype for sepsis in critically ill patients: a preliminary study
Authors:
A Foca, C Peronace, V Marano, GS Barreca, AG Lamberti, N Marascio, A Giancotti, R Puccio, MC Liberto
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 2/2014
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Excerpt
Sepsis, a leading cause of death in critical care patients, is the result of complex interactions between the infecting microorganisms and the host responses that influence clinical outcomes [
1]. Reliable biochemical markers that enable early diagnosis are still needed. A new marker, presepsin (soluble CD14 subtype, sCD14-ST) is a circulating fragment of 13 kDa of soluble CD14 that originates from the cleavage of the CD14 expressed on the surface membranes of monocytes/macrophages. sCD14-ST has been shown to increase significantly in patients with sepsis [
2]. In our study we compare diagnostic performance of presepsin, C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT). …