Usefulness of Acute Phase Reactant Score in the Neonatal Period

Managing Neonatal Infections

Toshihiko Nakamura, Haruo Goto (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0013-2 (ISBN)

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In clinical practice, the most important points for accurately diagnosing neonatal infections are: immediate results at the bedside (quickness), accuracy of results (reliability), the degree of invasiveness to the sick baby is as low as possible (less invasiveness), the examination is not too expensive (cost performance), and the examination can be repeated (repeatability). This book describes the acute phase reactant (APR) score, in which one test item is 10 µL, and three APRs can be measured within 3 minutes in total at the bedside and scored. With clinicians' keen observability and this APR score, neonatal infections can be confidently assessed. In addition, this book does not only refer to APR score, but also publishes the measurement results of cytokine profiles in comparison with APR scores throughout. This book will also increase understanding of the pathophysiology of neonatal infectious diseases.

Toshihiko Nakamura, MD, PhD, is a clinical professor at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan, and Director of Neonatology at the Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital in Tokyo. He is the author of "Prophylactic effects of recombinant human superoxide dismutase in neonatal lung injury induced by the intratracheal instillation of endotoxin in piglets" in the Journal of Neonatal Biology (2001), "Study on the Usefulness of APR Scores from the Viewpoint of Proinflammatory Cytokines" in Disease Markers (2015), and "The mechanism of onset in neonatal leukemoid reaction: synergistic effects of proinflammatory cytokines including interleukin-6" in Advances in Medicine and Biology (2020).Haruo Goto, MD, PhD, is Honorary Director of Nagoya City University West Medical Center, Japan. He is the author of "Diagnostic significance of serum orosomucoid level in bacterial infection during neonatal period" in Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica (1973), and "Evaluation of APR-Score (acute-phase reactants score) as screening test of the neonatal infection." in Acta Neonatologica Japonica (1974).

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Laboratoriumsmedizin
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
ISBN-10	1-0364-0013-1 / 1036400131
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0013-2 / 9781036400132
Zustand	Neuware