Recent advance of procalcitonin in central nervous system diseases / 中华神经科杂志

ABSTRACT

Procalcitonin, as a biological marker of bacterial infection, has been widely used in clinical diagnosis of various infectious diseases. With the development of basic and clinical research, it has been found that procalcitonin not only plays a cascading and amplifying role in systemic inflammatory response, but also exerts an important effect on assessment, diagnosis, and prognosis in some central nervous system diseases. In this article, "procalcitonin" "bacterial meningitis""marker" and "central nervous system diseases" were used to search the relevant literatures published from 1993 to 2021 in the databases of Pubmed, Wanfang Medicine and China Knowledge Network. The roles of procalcitonin in central nervous system diseases were systemically reviewed for assisting the diagnosis and treatment of central nervous system diseases.