Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Procalcitonin in liver transplantation: are high levels due to donors or recipients? | Available online http content 1 2 4 R85 Research Procalcitonin in liver transplantation are high levels due to donors or recipients Daniel Eyraud1 Said Ben Ayed2 Marie Laure Tanguy3 Corinne Vezinet1 Jean Michel Siksik4 Maguy Bernard2 Sylvia Fratea1 Marie Movschin1 Jean-Christophe Vaillant4 Pierre Coriat1 and Laurent Hannoun4 1Département d Anesthesie-Reanimation Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière 43-47 Boulevard de l Hopital 75013 Paris France 2Laboratoire de Biochimie Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière 43-47 Boulevard de l Hôpital 75013 Paris France 3Unite de Recherche Clinique departement de Statistiques Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière 43-47 Boulevard de l Hôpital 75013 Paris France 4Service de chirurgie digestive et de transplantation hépatique Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière 43-47 Boulevard de l Hôpital 75013 Paris France Corresponding author Daniel Eyraud Received 11 Mar 2008 Revisions requested 9 Apr 2008 Revisions received 24 Jun 2008 Accepted 4 Jul 2008 Published 4 Jul 2008 Critical Care 2008 12 R85 doi cc6942 This article is online at http content 12 4 R85 2008 Eyraud et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction To date a specific marker to evaluate and predict the clinical course or complication of the liver-transplanted patient is not available in clinical practice. Increased procalcitonin PCT levels have been found in infectious inflammation poor organ perfusion and high PCT levels in the cardiac donor appeared to predict early graft failure. We evaluated PCT as a predictor of early graft dysfunction and postoperative complications. Methods PCT serum concentrations were measured in samples collected before organ retrieval from 67 consecutive
