• Clinics in chest medicine · Dec 2008

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    Biomarkers: diagnosis and risk assessment in sepsis.

    • Corey E Ventetuolo and Mitchell M Levy.
    • Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, PH 8, Room 101, 622 W. 168th Street, New York City, NY 10032, USA.
    • Clin. Chest Med. 2008 Dec 1;29(4):591-603, vii.

    AbstractPrompt diagnosis, intervention, and risk assessment are critical in caring for septic patient but remain difficult with currently available methods. Biomarkers may become useful adjuncts to clinicians and ultimately serve as targets for future therapeutic trials in sepsis. The most relevant markers are reviewed in this article, including interleukin-6, C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1, and biomarker panels.

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