New strategies in sepsis diagnosis

Linas Pieteris; Giedrė Bakšytė; Tadas Česnaitis; Astra Vitkauskienė; Andrius Macas

doi:10.6001/actamedica.v19i3.2440

Linas Pieteris
Giedrė Bakšytė
Tadas Česnaitis
Astra Vitkauskienė
Andrius Macas

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6001/actamedica.v19i3.2440

Keywords: presepsin, sCD14, sepsis diagnosis, sepsis prognosis, CRP, PCT, IL-6

Abstract

Successful treatment of sepsis begins from early diagnosis and prognosis. In last decades the number of sepsis cases is growing, so establishing early diagnosis of sepsis as well as effectiveness of treatment are very significant. That is why development of new diagnostic sepsis markers is important. In this review we evaluated a new sepsis marker Presepsin (sCD14) and compared it to other markers: Procalcitonin (PCT), C-reactive protein (CRP) and Interleukine-6 (IL-6).