New Biomarkers to Diagnose Ventilator Associated Pneumonia: Pentraxin 3 and Surfactant Protein D.
Nazan Ulgen TekerekBasak Nur AkyildizBaris Derya ErcalSabahattin MuhtarogluPublished in: Indian journal of pediatrics (2018)
The index findings suggest that serum SPD is the most sensitive biomarker in diagnosis of VAP and it can be used as an early and organism specific marker for Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.