Procalcitonin is a reliable marker of severe systemic infection in neutropenic haematological patients with mucositis

Am J Hematol. 2010 May;85(5):380-3. doi: 10.1002/ajh.21685.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Biomarkers / blood
  • Calcitonin / blood*
  • Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide
  • Female
  • Fever / blood
  • Fever / complications*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mucositis / blood
  • Mucositis / complications*
  • Neutropenia / complications*
  • Protein Precursors / blood*
  • ROC Curve
  • Sepsis / blood*
  • Sepsis / complications*
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Biomarkers
  • CALCA protein, human
  • Protein Precursors
  • Calcitonin
  • Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide