Introduction To determine the threshold of umbilical cord blood procalcitonin for early-onset neonatal infection diagnosis. Method This prospective study was conducted on 126 neonates in the neonatal
BackgroundPrevious studies report conflicting results on the benefit of peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients treated with low glucose degradation product (GDP) solution. The effects of low GDP solution o
Sn, sensitivity; Sp, specificity; CI, confidence interval; ROC, receiver operating characteristic.*84 mg/g of creatinine (8.4 mg/mmol) for the TPCR was the optimal cut-off value to predict microalbumi
Plasma osmolarity (Posm), sodium (Na), hematocrit (Hct), total body water (TBW), resistance divided by body height (R/height), reactance divided by body height (Xc/height), plasma volume (PV).*calcula
