Procalcitonin Strip Test as an Independent Predictor in Acute Pancreatitis

Procalcitonin as an early predictor of acute infection in hemodialysis patients.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Hemodialysis patients have a greater risk of infection than individuals not on dialysis. Procalcitonin has been shown to rise in bacterial from but widely studied in hemodialysis patients. The present study evaluates procalcitonin as an early predictor of infection in this population. METHODS A historical cohorts study was made of 211 prevalent hemodialysis patients (media...

[Procalcitonin as a predictor of bacteremia in postoperative cardiosurgery patients].

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To define diagnostics ability of procalcitonin (PCT) test for prediction of bacteremia of different etiology in cardio-surgical patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS 10158 pairs of blood examples from cardio-surgical patients in early postoperative period were studied from 2007 to 2012. Results of PCT test were compared with blood cultures. The data is presented as absolute val...

Pancreatic Metastasis of Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis

Parathyroid Carcinoma Presenting as an Acute Pancreatitis

Acute pancreatitis is a severe condition with a high mortality rate and it is most commonly caused by Gallstone ́s Disease and excessive alcohol use [1,2]. Acute pancreatitis caused by hypercalcemia due to primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is very rare [3]. The relationship between acute pancreatitis and hypercalcemia was first reported in 1947, but it was not fully appreciated until 10 years l...

serum uric acid as an independent predictor of recurrence in ischemic stroke patients

background and purpose: the relationship between uric acid and stroke recurrence is ambiguous. some studies have explored this relationship in acute ischemic stroke but had different results. we evaluated the association of admission uric acid level with risk of stroke recurrence in patients with ischemic stroke. methods: we studied ischemic stroke patients presenting to our hospital with magne...