摘要:
Subject of the present invention is a biomarker for graft failure and/or mortality after organ transplantation. Procalcitonin was found to be a useful marker for the prediction of risk stratification for graft failure and/or mortality of a subject who has received an organ transplant and monitoring and therapy guidance of such subject.
摘要:
Subject of the present invention are assays and in vitro methods for determining a prognosis for a patient having an acute coronary syndrome, whereby the level of procalcitonin or fragments thereof is measured in a sample obtained from said patient. Said level of procalcitonin or fragments thereof may then be correlated to a predisposition to an adverse outcome of said acute coronary syndrome.
摘要:
The invention relates to in vitro methods for prognosis and risk-stratification for a patient having a cardiac disease as heart failure. The invention further relates to the use of such a method.
摘要:
In vitro method for the risk stratification of patients with stable arteriosclerosis, especially stable coronary artery disease, wherein the concentration of procalcitonin is determined in the circulation of such patients using a highly sensitive PCT assay, and wherein within the range of PCT concentrations in the typical normal range of healthy individuals cutoff values are defined which distinguish groups of individual patients with stable arteriosclerosis in accordance with the personal cardiac risk, and the patients are allotted to one of said risk groups on the basis of their individual PCT concentrations