Clinical significance of serum procalcitonin in differentiation of bacterial pneumonia and smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis
LU Ni-hong
Wang Ya-ling
YANG Rui
Abstract：Objective To analyze clinical significance of serum procalcitonin (PCT) in patients with bacterial pneumonia and those with smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (SNPTB). Methods The levels of PCT, hypersensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), white blood cell (WBC) and neutrophil percentage (NEUT%) in 80 patients with bacterial pneumonia (bacterial pneumonia group), 100 SNPTB patients (SNPTB group), and 50 healthy controls (control group) were detected. Results The levels of PCT, ESR, hs-CRP, WBC and NEUT% in bacterial pneumonia group were significantly higher than those in SNPTB group and the control group (P<0.05). The level of PCT in bacterial pneumonia group increased significantly(87.5%), and it was not significantly different between SNPTB group and the control group (P>0.05). Conclusion The level of serum PCT is significantly different between patients with bacterial pneumonia and those with SNPTB, which is of clinical significance in differentiation of bacterial pneumonia and SNPTB.
Keywords：pneumoniabacterialcalcitoninC-reactive proteintherapeutics
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 96-98 )