Not Signed In - Blood Marker Helps Predict Prognosis Among Those With Abdominal Infection
Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:00 AM EST
... Monitoring blood levels of a compound known as procalcitonin in patients with peritonitis (a serious intra-abdominal infection) could help identify patients at increased risk of organ failure and death, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. ...
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