Presepsin teardown - pitfalls of biomarkers in the diagnosis and prognosis of bacterial infection in cirrhosis
Maria Papp, Tamas Tornai, Zsuzsanna Vitalis, Istvan Tornai, David Tornai, Tamas Dinya, Andrea Sumegi, Peter Antal-Szalmas
Maria Papp, Tamas Tornai, Zsuzsanna Vitalis, Istvan Tornai, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Medicine, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
David Tornai, Peter Antal-Szalmas, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Medicine Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Tamas Dinya, Institute of Surgery, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Medicine, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Andrea Sumegi, Vascular Biology, Thrombosis and Haemostasis Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Author contributions: Papp M, Tornai I and Antal-Szamas P designed the study; Tornai T, Tornai D, Vitalis Z, Dinya T and Sumegi A performed research; Papp M, Tornai T and Antal-Szalmas P analyzed data; Papp M, Tornai T and Antal-Szalmas P wrote the manuscript; Papp M and Tornai T contributed equally to the work and both should be considered as first authors.
Supported by János Bólyai Research Scholarship of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, No. BO/00426/11; University of Debrecen and Research Grant of National Research, No. RH/885/2013; Development and Innovation Office, No. K115818/2015/1.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Hungarian National Review Board and the Institutional Review Board of the University of Debrecen.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
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Correspondence to: Maria Papp, MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Medicine, Nagyerdei krt. 98, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary. papp.maria@med.unideb.hu
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Received: June 28, 2016
Peer-review started: June 29, 2016
First decision: August 8, 2016
Revised: August 26, 2016
Accepted: September 28, 2016
Article in press: September 28, 2016
Published online: November 7, 2016
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