Inflammatory Biomarkers and Clinical Judgment in the Emergency Diagnosis of Urgent Abdominal Pain | Zendy

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Inflammatory Biomarkers and Clinical Judgment in the Emergency Diagnosis of Urgent Abdominal Pain

Author(s) -

Tobias Breidthardt,

Nora Brunner-Schaub,

Catharina Balmelli,

J. Sancho,

Katrin BurriWinkler,

Nicolas Geigy,

Lukas Mundorff,

Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos,

Julia Scholz,

Philip Haaf,

Christian Hamel,

Daniel M. Frey,

Karen Delport,

W. Frank Peacock,

Michael Freese,

Salvatore DiSomma,

John A. Todd,

Katharina Rentsch,

Roland Bingisser,

Christian Mueller,

Joan Walter,

Raphael Twerenbold,

Thomas Nestelberger,

Jasper Boeddinghaus,

Patrick Badertscher,

Jeanne du Fay de Lavallaz,

Christian Puelacher,

Karin Wildi

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

clinical chemistry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705

H-Index - 218

eISSN - 1530-8561

pISSN - 0009-9147

DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2018.296491

Subject(s) - medicine , procalcitonin , emergency department , abdominal pain , prospective cohort study , area under the curve , surgery , sepsis , psychiatry

The early diagnosis of urgent abdominal pain (UAP) is challenging. Most causes of UAP are associated with extensive inflammation. Therefore, we hypothesized that quantifying inflammation using interleukin-6 and/or procalcitonin would provide incremental value in the emergency diagnosis of UAP.

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