METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF DEVELOPING COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA

摘要

FIELD: medicine. ^ SUBSTANCE: blood serum is examined for procalcitonin (PCT, pg/ml), tumour necrosis factor- (TNF- pg/ml), and C-reactive protein (CRP, mg/l) values. These values are used to derive the value D: D=+12.444*PCT+0.13*CRP+2.589* TNF-. If the value D exceeds 54.25, the complicated clinical course of community-acquired pneumonia is predicted. ^ EFFECT: invention provides higher preventive effectiveness in the complications in patients with community-acquired pneumonia due to the integral estimate of biochemical inflammation markers. ^ 2 ex