Comparative study on difference of procalcitonin level between serum and plasma in children / 国际检验医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To compare the difference of procalcitonin (PCT)level between serum and plasma in children so as to in-vestigate whether ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid dipotassium (EDTA-K2 )anti-coagulation plasma could replace serum to be an al-ternative material for PCT testing.Methods The PCT concentrations in the serum and EDTA-K2 anti-coagulation plasma from 90 children patients were detected by using the mini-VIDS-GB automatic enzyme linked fluorescence analyzer and the plasma PCT au-tomatic quantitative detection method.The correlation between the two sets of data was analyzed.And the data were assigned into the 3-level groups for conducting statistic analysis.At the same time the influence of child′s age and gender on the PCT level was al-so discussed.Results The PCT level in serum was well correlated with that in EDTA-K2 anti-coagulation plasma (r=0.812,P 0.05).However,the differences of the PCT levels between serum and EDTA-K2 anti-coagulation plasma in the middle level group and high level group were statistically significant (P <0.05).Child′s gender and age have significant effect on the PCT level. Conclusion There is statistically significant difference between serum and plasma PCT detection levels in children,which has an important guiding role for further systematic study of PCT level difference in serum and EDTA-K2 anticoagulation plasma and its clinical significance.