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cord-009285-1ddfywfa	Assicot, M.	High serum procalcitonin concentrations in patients with sepsis and infection	1993-02-27		.txt	text/plain	2593	127	40	By means of a monoclonal immunoradiometric assay for calcitonin precursors, we have measured serum concentrations of procalcitonin in patients with various bacterial and viral infections. Lancet 1993; 341: 518-21 Introduction About 3000 of the 30 000 people admitted to hospital in the UK each year for acute upper-gastrointestinal-tract bleeding will die.1 Prognostic indicators for outcome include: age, pulse rate, blood pressure, and haemoglobin at admission, and findings at endoscopy, such as presence, site, and nature of a bleeding lesion, and stigmata of recent bleeding.2-4 One factor that may promote continued bleeding and hence an adverse clinical outcome is the fibrinolytic activity of the upper gastrointestinal tract, because fibrinolysis may lead to digestion of haemostatic plugs.5 Consistent with this possibility, Poller and colleaguess demonstrated increased serum fibrin degradation products (FDP) in a small series of patients with acute upper-gastrointestinal-tract bleeding; however, the prognostic value of serum FDP concentrations has not been reported in a prospective study.	./cache/cord-009285-1ddfywfa.txt	./txt/cord-009285-1ddfywfa.txt