Klaus Tschaikowsky
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
30 Papers
326 Citations
Klaus Tschaikowsky is an academic researcher from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Procalcitonin & Intensive care. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 30 publications.
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Papers
Postoperative plasma concentrations of procalcitonin after different types of surgery
TL;DR: PCT can be used postoperatively for diagnostic means only when the range of PCT concentrations during the normal course of a certain type of surgery is considered and concentrations are followed up, whereas it is normal in the majority of patients after minor and primarily aseptic surgery.
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Postoperative plasma concentrations of procalcitonin after different types of surgery
TL;DR: PCT and CRP plasma concentrations after different types of surgery in patients with a regular postoperative course are measured to use PCT for diagnosis of infection or systemic inflammation also in the postoperative period.
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Randomized, placebo-controlled trial of the anti-tumor necrosis factor antibody fragment afelimomab in hyperinflammatory response during severe sepsis: The RAMSES Study
Konrad Reinhart,Thilo Menges,Bengt Gårdlund,JH Zwaveling,Mark Smithes,Jean Louis Vincent,Jose M. Tellado,Antonio Salgado-Remigio,Reuven Zimlichman,Stuart Withington,Klaus Tschaikowsky,Rainer Brase,Pierre Damas,H Kupper,Joachim Kempeni,Juergen Eiselstein,Martin Kaul +16 more
TL;DR: The IL-6 immunostrip test identified two distinct sepsis populations with significantly different mortality rates and a small absolute reduction in mortality rate was found in the afelimomab-treated patients.
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Predictive value of procalcitonin, interleukin-6, and C-reactive protein for survival in postoperative patients with severe sepsis
TL;DR: In this article, the performance of procalcitonin (PCT), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and C-reactive protein (CRP) as percentage of baseline (POB) in predicting hospital survival was evaluated.
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Procalcitonin--influence of temperature, storage, anticoagulation and arterial or venous asservation of blood samples on procalcitonin concentrations.
Michael Meisner,Klaus Tschaikowsky,Stephan Schnabel,Joachim Schmidt,Alexander Katalinic,Jürgen Schüttler +5 more
TL;DR: Although the difference of sampling and storage of the blood on procalcitonin concentrations is not significant, multiple factors may act synergistically on the result of procalCitonin measurement, e.g. the use of EDTA-plasma and storage at room temperature, when samples are measured within 4 hours after blood drawing.