The value of measuring acute phase protein level in pathologic cases with particular attention to nervous system diseases
Kawiak, W.; Bartosik-Psujek, H.; Iłzecka, J.
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska. Sectio D Medicina 50: 161-165
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0066-2240 PMID: 9304383 Document Number: 441572
Based on Polish and foreign literature the up-to-date knowledge on usefulness of measurement of the level of acute phase proteins in clinical diagnostics is presented. Acute phase proteins may serve as a quick, preliminary test which indicates bacterial infection or necrotic process. They are good markers of treatment efficacy and infectious (bacterial) complications in patients in a hopeless state or with a chronic disease. In neurological diagnostics they are useful in differentiation of bacterial and viral meningitis.