ArticleEmergency medicine international2020
Plasma Procalcitonin Is Useful for Predicting the Severity of Acute Cholecystitis.
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- Should Procalcitonin Be Included in Acute Cholecystitis Guidelines? A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Pooled it
- Clinical and Imaging Characteristics to Discriminate Between Complicated and Uncomplicated Acute Cholecystitis: A Regression Model and Decision Tree Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- C-reactive Protein and Biliary Complications as Independent Predictors of Hospital Stay in Acute Cholecystitis.Cureus · 2025Article
- Evaluation of procalcitonin versus conventional inflammatory biomarkers for clinical severity grading in patients with intra-abdominal infection.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2025Article
- Development and Validation of an Explainable Machine Learning Model for Gangrenous Cholecystitis Prediction: A Multicenter Retrospective Study.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Article
- Procalcitonin and C-reactive protein as biomarkers for diagnosing and assessing the severity of acute cholecystitis.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2025Article
- Clinical efficacy of laparoscopic cholecystectomy combined with endoscopic papillary balloon dilation in treatment of gallbladder stones with common bile duct stones: A retrospective study.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2024Article
- Management of Intra-Abdominal Infections: The Role of Procalcitonin.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Prognostic effect of Nesfatin-1 on the diagnosis and staging of acute cholecystitis.Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES · 2022Article
- Role of serum procalcitonin in predicting the surgical outcomes of acute calculous cholecystitis.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundAcute cholecystitis is a common complication of cholelithiasis. Delayed diagnosis may constitute morbidity and mortality; therefore, early diagnosis and determining the severity of acute cholecystitis are crucial.
objectivesThis study aimed to determine the validity of blood procalcitonin (PCT) levels in assessing the severity of acute cholecystitis.
methodsThe Emergency Department (ED) patients diagnosed as acute cholecystitis were included in the study. Patients were allocated into three severity grades according to the Tokyo Guidelines 2013. PCT level was measured after the clinical and radiological diagnosis of acute cholecystitis in the ED.
resultsNinety-five patients diagnosed with acute cholecystitis, among them 48 of were male. Forty patients (42.1%) were allocated to grade 1, 19 (20%) to grade 2, and 36 (37.9%) to grade 3. The median values of PCT were 0.104 ng/ml, 0.353 ng/ml, and 1.466 ng/ml for grade 1, 2, and 3 patients, respectively (
conclusionBlood procalcitonin levels can be used to determine the severity of acute cholecystitis effectively.
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