7/February/2022 Top Medical Bulletin Dr. Nandita Mohan7 Feb 2022 6:31 PM ISTHere are today's top medical stories Use of Renin angiostensin system inhibitors to affect kidney vesselsSeveral studies report hypertension is a...
Procalcitonin helps predict severe bacterial infection in children aged 3 months or less: Study Dr. Nandita Mohan5 Feb 2022 9:00 AM ISTAccording to recent research, Jun-Sung Park and associates from the Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of...
Procalcitonin promising as calcitonin replacement for managing thyroid cancer: Study MD Editorial Team27 Oct 2021 9:00 AM ISTSwitzerland: According to a recent study in The Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, procalcitonin (ProCT) has the potential to replace calcitonin...
PCT and CRP, not reliable biomarkers for detecting secondary infections in COVID-19 patients: Study Medha Baranwal9 Aug 2021 3:00 PM ISTNetherlands: The inflammatory biomarkers CRP and PCT show a rebound increase upon cessation of dexamethasone in critically ill COVID-19 patients...
Procalcitonin better marker than MASCC score in patients with febrile neutropenia: Study Dr. Shravani Dali12 July 2021 9:15 AM ISTProcalcitonin (PCT) is a helpful marker with better prognostic ability than MASCC score in patients with febrile neutropenia, suggests a study...
Procalcitonin Reduces Long-Term Infection-associated Adverse Events in Sepsis Dr Kartikeya Kohli17 Feb 2021 10:12 PM ISTThe U.S. CDC and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control have identified antimicrobial resistance as an alarming global public health...
Procalcitonin-guided strategy lowers antibiotic exposure in Acute Chest Syndrome in SCD Dr Satabdi Saha5 Dec 2020 2:00 PM ISTAcute chest syndrome (ACS) is a major complication of SCD, and a significant cause for morbidity and mortality in adult patients. ACS is...
