ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020
Elevated Procalcitonin as a Risk Factor for Postoperative Delirium in the Elderly after Cardiac Surgery-A Prospective Observational Study.
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- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Role of Peripheral Inflammation in Delirium.Brain and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Risk factors of delirium after cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2024Pooled it
- Procalcitonin for the diagnosis of postoperative bacterial infection after adult cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Critical care (London, England) · 2024Pooled it
- Predisposing and Precipitating Factors Associated With Delirium: A Systematic Review.JAMA network open · 2023Pooled it
- Incidence and risk factors for delirium in cardiac surgery intensive care unit patients: A single-center study.World journal of critical care medicine · 2026Article
- Direct and indirect associations of stress hyperglycemia with delirium in older adults with community-acquired pneumonia: limited mediation by neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and procalcitonin.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Changes in various forms of fibronectin in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting with cardiopulmonary bypass - a prospective, observational study.Scientific reports · 2024Observational
- Thyroid hormone, cortisol, interleukin-2, and procalcitonin regulate postoperative delirium in acute type A aortic dissection patients.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2022Article
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Abstract
One of the most common complications after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CBP) is delirium. The purpose of this study was to prospectively investigate the risk of developing postoperative delirium in a group of elderly patients using a multivariate assessment of preoperative and intraoperative risk factors. A total of 149 elderly patients were included. Thirty patients (20%) developed post-operative delirium. Preoperative procalcitonin (PCT) above the reference range (>0.05 ng/mL) was recorded more often in patients who postoperatively developed delirium than in the non-delirium group (50% vs. 27%,
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