Diagnostic difficulties in the diagnosis of high acute-phase proteins levels in a teenage drug addicted female patient.
Helena KrakowczykMaria SzczepańskaUrszula Wróblowska-GrzonkaKatarzyna Gajewska-OrmińskaKatarzyna ZioraEdyta MachuraPublished in: BMC psychiatry (2022)
The discussed case shows the difficulties of differential diagnosis in a teenage patient struggling with many diseases, who has been abusing drugs for several years. Increased inflammatory parameters in the form of an raised PCT, CRP, NLR, PLR values may be caused by many factors. In adolescents who frequently experiment with psychoactive substances, such cause of these disturbances should also be taken into account.