Blood Marker Helps Predict Prognosis among Those with Abdominal Infection

Science Daily — Monitoring blood levels of a compound known as procalcitonin in patients with peritonitis (a serious intra-abdominal infection) could help identify patients at increased risk of organ failure and death, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.>>> Discuss This Story

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