Pentraxin 3 levels and correlation with disease severity in patients with acute rheumatic fever.

Dolunay Gürses Merve Oğuz Münevver Yılmaz Hülya Aybek Funda Akpinar

Published in: Archives of rheumatology (2021)

High PTX3 level during an acute episode of ARF may help predict the clinical course and the severity of accompanying carditis. However, prospective studies with larger sample sizes are needed.

Keyphrases

liver failure
respiratory failure
rheumatoid arthritis
drug induced
aortic dissection
case control