Search Tag: biomarker

2025 24 Jul

Sepsis remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in intensive care units (ICUs), exacerbated by delays in diagnosis and inadequate risk stratification. Despite advances in critical care, conventional biomarkers like procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) often fail to provide timely or specific detection. Pancreatic Stone Protein...Read more

2021 20 Apr

Sepsis is a global healthcare problem, with 50 million cases each year and 11 million related deaths  1 . It’s the life-threatening complication of an infection, in which the host’s immune response to a pathogen damages its own organs. The clinical diagnosis of sepsis relies mostly on signs and symptoms that are neither sensitive nor specific enough...Read more

2017 16 Mar

Acute kidney injury (AKI), a rapid decline in renal function, is highly prevalent in critically ill patients, and is associated with an increased risk of short- and long-term complications that extend beyond the acute phase (Pickkers et al. 2017). AKI is defined and classified by an increase in serum creatinine or a decline in urine output, both...Read more