BackgroundProcalcitonin is useful for the diagnosis of sepsis but its prognostic value regarding mortality is unclear. This prospective observational study was designed to study the prognostic value of procalcitonin in prediction of 28 day mortality in patients of sepsis. Fifty-four consecutive patients of sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock defined using the 2001 Consensus Conference SCCM/ESICM/ACCP/ATS/SIS criteria from medical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a tertiary care center in New Delhi, India were enrolled from July 2011 to June 2013. Procalcitonin (PCT), C-reactive protein (CRP) measurements were recorded on day 1, day 7 and day 28 of follow up.ResultsProcalcitonin value was a better predictor of all-cause short-term mortality than C-reactive protein. Those patients with Procalcitonin levels <7 ng/ml showed higher cumulative survival than those with level [greater than or equal to]7 ng/ml (69.1% vs. 39.5%, p = 0.02). No such effect was observed in relation to C-reactive protein. Procalcitonin levels [greater than or equal to]7 ng/ml predicted mortality with a hazard ratio of 2.6(1.1-6.3).ConclusionsA Procalcitonin value [greater than or equal to]7 ng/ml obtained at the time of admission to the ICU is a predictor of short-term mortality and thus may allow the identification of those septic patients at increased mortality risk, and help improve their treatment.
IP is currently the best assay to detect clinically relevant NALP5 Ab. Presence of NALP5 Ab in only one patient with IH who also had AIRE gene mutation suggests that these Ab are exceptionally rare in IH (0.69%) and, when present, occur in context of the autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy syndrome.
Six months of cholecalciferol/calcium supplementation in young females with VDD do not lead to significant alteration in mRNA expression of LL-37, Th1/Th2 cytokines and their transcription factors.
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