The analysis of correlation between serum procalcitonin concentration and microbial infections in patients with sepsis / 中华急诊医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the diagnostic and predict vaIue of procalcitonin (PCT) in ICU patients with sepsis and the correlation between PCT concentration and positive results of bacterial culture.Methods A total of 278 patients with sepsis were admitted into emergency ICU,general ICU and respiratory ICU from October 2011 to September 2012.Of them,193 patients had definite microbial infection evidence.Serum PCT levels among groups of different pathogens were compared.The analysis of correlation between the PCT concentration of the first assay was got after admission and short-term prognosis was evaluated.The correlation between PCT level and positive results of bacterial culture was also evaluated.Results Spearman correlation analysis showed that serum PCT levels of bacterial infections in patients with sepsis were significantly higher than those of the non-bacterial infections in patients with sepsis (P =0.001).And there was a positive correlation between the PCT concentration of the first specimen after admission and 7-day in-hospital mortality in patients with sepsis due to bacterial infections (r =0.277,P =0.004).The patients with PCT levels greater than 2 ng/ml had high vulnerability to bacterial infection Conclusions The PCT concentration of the first assay after admission was positively correlated to 7-day mortality in ICU patients with sepsis due to bacterial infections.The serum PCT concentration indicated the severity of host response to the bacterial infection.And etiological evidence directly showed pathogenic factors.Both of PCT and etiological evidence related to bacterial infection,reflected different aspects of bacterial infection.