Serum Procalcitonin Level is a Useful Predictor of Dilating Vesicoureteral Reflux in Patients with First Febrile Urinary Tract Infection
| Autor: | Sherein Abdelhamid Shalaby, Mohamed Fathelbab Elsayed |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Polymers and Plastics business.industry Febrile urinary tract infection Renal tissue bacterial infections and mycoses urologic and male genital diseases Gastroenterology female genital diseases and pregnancy complications Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Procalcitonin Internal medicine parasitic diseases Medicine Biomarker (medicine) In patient Business and International Management Risk factor business hormones hormone substitutes and hormone antagonists |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Clinical Nephrology. :007-012 |
| ISSN: | 2581-3870 |
| Popis: | Background: Procalcitonin (PCT) has been proposed as a novel biomarker for prediction of Vesicoureteral Refl ux (VUR). Since VUR is the most important risk factor for occurrence of pyelonephritis and renal tissue infl ammation |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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