Application value of procalcitonin for predicting prognosis of severe acute pancreatitis / 国际检验医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the change of serum procalcitonin(PCT) expression level and to investigate its clinical value for predicting the prognosis in the patients with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) .Methods Totallay 48 inpatients with SAP in our hos‐pital from April 2012 to April 2014 were retrospectively analyzed .The PCT levels during different hospitalization period in the sur‐vial group and the death group were detected and analyzed .The scores of acute physiological and chronic health evaluation Ⅱ (A‐PACHE Ⅱ) were compared between these two groups .Results (1)The clinical characreristics of gender ,body temperature and WBC had no statistically significant differences beween the survival group and the death group (P>0 .05) ,but the PCT level had statistical differencet (P<0 .05) .(2)There was no statistically significant difference in the PCT level and APACHE Ⅱ score at ad‐mission between the two groups .In the later treatment process ,the PCT level and APACHE Ⅱ score in the survival group were progressively decreased ,while which in the death group were progressively inecreased (P<0 .05) .WT5HZ〗Conclusion PCT has an important clinical value in forcasting the prognosis of SAP .