The diagnostic ability of procalcitonin and interleukin-6 to differentiate infectious from noninfectious systemic inflammatory response syndrome and to predict mortality

• Main Authors: Mat Nor, Mohd Basri, Md Ralib, Azrina, Abdullah, Nor Zamzila, Pickering, John W.
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: W B Saunders CO-Elsevier INC, 2016
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/52501/1/52501_The%20diagnostic%20ability.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/52501/2/52501_The%20diagnostic%20ability_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/52501/3/52501_The%20diagnostic%20ability_WOS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/52501/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883944116000034

Purpose The purpose of the study was to quantify the ability of procalcitonin (PCT) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) to differentiate noninfectious systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and sepsis and to predict hospital mortality. Materials We recruited consecutively adult patients with SIRS ad...