Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Kinetics of procalcitonin in iatrogenic sepsis

  • Correspondence
  • Published:
Intensive Care Medicine Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Assicot M, Gendrel D, Carsin H, Raymond J, Guilbaud J, Bohoun C (1993) High serum procalcitonin in patients with sepsis and infection. Lancet 341: 515–518

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Eberhard OK, Haubitz M, Brunkhorst FM, Kliem V, Koch KM, Brunkhorst F (1997) Usefulness of procalcitonin for differentiation between activity of systemic autoimmune disease (systemic lupus erythematosus/systemic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis) and invasive bacterial infection. Arthritis Rheum 40:1250–1257

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Reith HB, Lehmkuhl P, Beier W et al. (1995) Procalcitonin — ein prognostischer Infektionsparameter bei der Peritonitis. Chir Gastroenterol 11 (Suppl 2): 47–50

    Google Scholar 

  4. Gendrel D, Assicot M, Raymond J et al. (1996) Procalcitonin as a marker for the early diagnosis of neonatal infection. J Pediatr 128: 570–573

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Dandona P, Nix D, Wilson MF et al. (1994) Procalcitonin increase after endotoxin injection in normal subjects. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 79 (5): 1605–1608

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. of Medical Intensive Care and Cardiology, Krankenhaus Neukölln, Rudowerstr. 48, D-12351, Berlin, Germany

    F. M. Brunkhorst, U. Heinz & Z. F. Forycki

Authors
  1. F. M. Brunkhorst
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. U. Heinz
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Z. F. Forycki
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Brunkhorst, F.M., Heinz, U. & Forycki, Z.F. Kinetics of procalcitonin in iatrogenic sepsis. Intensive Care Med 24, 888–889 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001340050683

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001340050683

Keywords

Search

Navigation