ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022
Procalcitonin Predicts Bacterial Infection, but Not Long-Term Occurrence of Adverse Events in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome.
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- Procalcitonin in acute and chronic coronary syndromes: Diagnostic biomarker of coronary inflammation.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Article
- Functional coronary assessment in angina with intermediate coronary stenosis: the #FullPhysiology approach.European heart journal · 2025Article
- Monocyte distribution width enhances the detection of infection in patients after primary percutaneous coronary intervention.PloS one · 2025Article
- The Role of Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of Cardiogenic Shock Secondary to Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Narrative Review.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction Among Patients With Laboratory-Confirmed Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: A Self-Controlled Case Series Study.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023Article
- From Classic to Modern Prognostic Biomarkers in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
This study compiles data to determine if procalcitonin (PCT) values may predict both the risk of bacterial infection and potentially negative long-term outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). All patients with a diagnosis of ACS that had PCT levels assessed during the first 24 h of hospitalization were enrolled in this study. The primary outcome was to detect the presence of bacterial infection defined as the occurrence of fever and at least one positive blood or urinary culture with clinical signs of infection. The secondary outcome was to monitor the occurrence after 1 year of the composite outcome of all-cause mortality, stroke and myocardial infarction. Overall, 569 patients were enrolled (mean age 69.37 ± 14 years, 30% females). Of these, 44 (8%) met the criteria for bacterial infection. After multivariate analysis, PCT and SBP were found to be independent predictors of bacterial infections (OR for PCT above the cut-off 2.67, 95% CI 1.09-6.53,
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