... percentages.Figure 2. C- reactiveprotein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT) concentration according to the pneumonia severity index in bacterialcommunity-acquired pneumonia. Patients in risk classes ... significantpositive correlation was detected between the CRP and PCT concentrations (r=0.648, p=0.01).Diagnostic accuracy for discriminating TB frombacterial CAPIn the ROC curve analysis, the CRP ... CRP concentration had aKang YA, et al. C- reactiveproteinand procalcitonin for the diagnosis of tuberculosis 339Table 1. Clinical and laboratory characteristics of the participantsBacterial...
... Clinical application of C- reactiveprotein for cardiovascular diseasedetection and prevention. Circulation 2003;107:363-9.9. Ridker PM, Hennekens CH, Buring JE,Rifai N. C- reactiveproteinand ... Stryer DB, Clancy CM. Practical clinical trials: increasing the value of clinical research for decision making in clinical and health policy. JAMA 2003;290:1624-32.Copyright â 2007 Massachusetts ... endothelial cells through sheddingof L-selectin by C- reactiveproteinand pep-tides derived from C- reactive protein. J ClinInvest 1997;100:522-9.25. Torzewski M, Rist C, Mortensen RF, etal. C- reactive...
... Stenkvist B: Breast cancer: prognosticsignificanceof c- erb-B2 and int-2 amplification compared with DNAploidy, S-phase fraction, and conventional clinicopathological features. Breast Cancer Res ... prognostic factor in advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Oncol Rep 1998, 5:649-652.7. Erlinger TP, Platz EA, Rifai N, Helzlsouer KJ: C- reactiveproteinand the riskof incident colorectal cancer. ... aprognosis factor in metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Res 1992,52:3317-3322.5. Scambia G, Testa U, Benedetti Panici P, Foti E, Martucci R, Gadducci A,Perillo A, Facchini V, Peschle C, Mancuso...
... Amsterdam2AbstractObjective: High- sensitivity C- reactiveprotein (hs-CRP) rises with cardiac injury/ischemia. We evaluated its efficacy inaiding in the identification of an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) ... ofassociat ion were per formed (odds ratio) and diagnostictest characteristics determined. Sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratios were calculated and 95%confidence intervals (CI) presented ... that hs-CRP hasprognostic value [11].ConclusionIn our large patient cohort, managed at a single-centerCPU, measurement of hs-CRP did not enhance the diag-nostic accuracy for detecting ACS. Based...
... E, DeMaat MP. C- reactiveprotein in atherosclerosis: A causal factor? Cardiovasc Res. 2006; 71: 30-39. 24. Yip HK, Sun CK, Chang LT, Chen MC, Liou CW. Time course and prognostic value of plasma ... 12. Among ischemic strokes 6 were cardioembolic, 7 were lacunar, and the remainder (16) were ischemic non-cardioembolic (11 atherosclerotic and 5 of undetermined cause). The location of stroke ... ischemic stroke. J Neurol Sci. 2005; 236: 65-71. 19. Masotti L, Ceccarelli E, Forconi S, Cappelli R. Prognostic role of C- reactiveprotein in very old patients with acute ischemic stroke. J Intern...
... the bacterium. C- reactiveprotein (CRP) is an acute-phase reac-tant that originates from the liver. CRP has many clinical and biological effects and can be used for the diagnosis and follow-up ... inflammatory and immune responses with release of various bacterial and host-dependent cytotoxic substances [2], resulting in chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, and gastric cancer [3]. Epidemiological ... inflammation can have sys-temic effects; (ii) H. pylori gastric infection is a chronic process that lasts for decades; and (iii) persistent in-fection induces chronic inflammatory and immune...
... malignancy or can-cer treatment, excluding non-melanotic skin cancer. All partic-ipants provided a detailed medical history in response tospecific questioning and those with an active medical condi-tion ... Procino A, Calabro P, Esposito P, Grandaliano G, Per-tosa G, Prete MD, Andreucci M, Lillo SD, Ferulano G, Cillo C, Savastano S, Colao A, Guida B: Inflammation may modulate IL-6 and C- reactiveprotein ... Diagnostic and Therapeutic Criteria Committee of the American RheumatismAssociation. Arthritis Rheum 1986, 29:1039-1049.13. Yudkin J, Stehouwer C, Emeis J, Coppack S: C- reactive protein in...
... homogenous sandwich test channel (❍); direct capture assay test channel (ᮀ); direct sandwich test channel (); homogenous sandwich control channel (x); direct capture control channel (+); direct sand-wich ... Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 0GJ, UKEmail: Jeffrey D McBride - jeffreymcb@googlemail.com; Matthew A Cooper* - mc221@cam.ac.uk* Corresponding author Abstract C- ReactiveProtein (CRP) ... application to clinical and public health practice: A statement for healthcare profes-sionals from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Heart Association. Circulation...
... i.dransfield@ed.ac.uk* Corresponding author AbstractBackground: It has been reported that C- reactiveprotein (CRP) binds both leukocyte FcγRIIA(CD32) and the plasma membrane of apoptotic cells. Since FcγRIIA ... Hirschfield GM: C- reactive protein: a critical update.J Clin Invest 2003, 111:1805-1812.9. Gershov D, Kim S, Brot N, Elkon KB: C- Reactiveprotein binds toapoptotic cells, protects the cells ... C, Du Clos TW: The majorreceptor for C- reactiveprotein on leukocytes is fcgammareceptor II. J Exp Med 1999, 190:585-590.6. Hundt M, Zielinska-Skowronek M, Schmidt RE: Lack of specificreceptors...
... against C- reactiveproteinand other acute phase proteins.Clin Chim Acta 2007, 378:13-23.13. Marnell L, Mold C, Du Clos TW: C- reactive protein: ligands,receptors and role in inflammation. Clin ... inflammation, CRP dissoci-ates to mCRP, which may enhance binding of circulatingsoluble immune complexes to phagocytic Fcγ receptors[12,43] and constitute a vicious circle.ConclusionsWe have ... microscopy, immunofluorescence and elec-tron microscopy. The biopsies were graded according to astandardized semiquantitative histological scoring protocol foractivity and chronicity indices...
... preceding category(Mann–Whitney U-test). Comparison of procalcitonin (PCT) and C- reactiveprotein (CRP)plasma concentrations at different SOFA scores during thecourse of sepsis and MODSMichael ... sepsis. Crit Care Med 1992; 20:864–874.8. Oberhoffer M, Bitterlich A, Hentschel T, et al: Procalcitonin (ProCT)correlates better with the ACCP/SCCM consensus conferencedefinitions than other specific ... MODSMichael Meisner, Klaus Tschaikowsky, Thomas Palmaers and Joachim SchmidtObjectives: The relation of procalcitonin (PCT) plasma concentrationscompared with C- reactiveprotein (CRP) was analyzed in...