Journal of International Obstetrics and Gynecology ›› 2012, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (6): 606-608.

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The Clinical Significance of Procalcitonin for Diagnosis of the Pregnant Women with Intrauterine Infection

CHEN Yan-tian,XIONG Yan,SU Xue-tang,SHI Sheng,HUANG Wei-gang,FAN Xiu-jing,LI Ying   

  1. Department of Clinical Laboratory,Jiangmen People′s Hospital,Jiangmen 529000,Guangdong Province,China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Published:2012-12-15 Online:2012-12-15

Abstract: Objective:To evaluate the clinical value of procalcitonin for diagnosis of the pregnant woman with intrauterine infection. Methods:We chose intrauterine infection of the pregnant woman and the nomal pregnant woman randomly,the main observation of the patients with bacterial and viral infection of PCT,and to compare the same period Ⅱ-6,CRP,WBC,N levels. Results:Speciticity(87.9%),sensitivity(92.4%), accuracy(83.5%),the positive predictive value(80.4%), the negative predictive value(91.7%) and the positive rate (88.2%) of PCT for the patients with bacterial infection were higher than other projects.The patients with bacterial infection group were higher than the patients with viral infection group(P<0.01). Conclusions:
PCT can be used as the auxiliary diagnosis of the pregnant woman with intrauterine infection,and can effectively guide the clinical use of antibiotics to assess the therapeutic effect.

Key words: Procalcitonin, Intrauterine infection, Interleukin-6, C-reactive protein