ArticleAnnals of medicine2023
Clinical value of procalcitonin-to-albumin ratio for identifying sepsis in neonates with pneumonia.
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- Letter to the editor regarding 'Clinical value of procalcitonin-to-albumin ratio for identifying sepsis in neonates with pneumonia'.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
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- Exploration of the Clinical Parameters as Predictive Biomarkers and Their Potential Roles in the Regulation of Inflammation in Elderly Septic Patients with Pneumonia.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Article
- Constructing a predictive model for early-onset sepsis in neonatal intensive care unit newborns based on SHapley Additive exPlanations explainable machine learning.Translational pediatrics · 2024Article
- Serum Albumin in Health and Disease: From Comparative Biochemistry to Translational Medicine.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundIt is possible that neonates with pneumonia also have unrecognized sepsis. Identifying sepsis in neonates with pneumonia may cause some trouble for clinicians. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical value of the procalcitonin-to-albumin ratio (PAR) in identifying sepsis in neonates with pneumonia.
methodsWe retrospectively included 912 neonates with pneumonia from January 2016 to July 2021. Clinical and laboratory data were collected from electronic medical records. Among neonates with pneumonia, 561 neonates were diagnosed with sepsis, according to the International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus. Neonates were divided into a sepsis group and a pneumonia group. A multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate whether PAR was a potential independent indicator for identifying sepsis in neonates with pneumonia. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was performed to evaluate the diagnostic value of PAR in sepsis.
resultsNeonates with sepsis have a higher PAR (
conclusionPAR can be used as a new biomarker to identify sepsis in neonates with pneumonia.
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