Pneumonia was confirmed in 7% of the patients in the intervention group and in 17% in the control group. The rate of antibiotic prescribing on the day of inclusion was lower in the intervention ...
Procalcitonin (PCT) improves the diagnosis of clinically-relevant bacterial pulmonary infections compared with C-reactive protein or leukocytes. Inflammatory biomarkers are not helpful for the ...
Severe pneumonia caused by human metapneumovirus in an immunocompetent adult highlights diagnostic challenges and underscores ...
With high biologic treatment failure rates common among patients who have hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), investigators set ...
Laboratory tests detected elevated concentrations of C-reactive protein (86 mg/L ... is currently considered indicative of COVID-19 viral pneumonia. Computed tomography confirmed the morphological ...
ua.edu Purpose C-reactive protein (CRP) is a marker of chronic systemic inflammation frequently used in cardiovascular disease risk assessment. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to provide a ...