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Measurement of granulocyte maturation may improve the early diagnosis of the septic state
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Larry H. Bernstein
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James Rucinski
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September 21, 2011
Abstract
Background: Sepsis is a costly diagnosis in hospitalized patients. Failure to diagnose sepsis in a timely manner creates a potential financial and safety hazard. The use of transthyretin, C-reactive protein and procalcitonin measurement as early markers of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and sepsis in association with admission of emergency department patients to the intensive care unit (ICU) has been studied. In these studies the SIRS criteria as well as the use of an elevated neutrophil count with granulocyte precursors (left shift) have proved to be problematic. Despite the validity of procalcitonin measurement (PCT, Brahms) in the early diagnosis of SIRS the cost and time for testing are limiting considerations. Immature granulocyte (IG) measurement has been proposed as a more readily available indicator of the presence of granulocyte precursors (left shift).
Methods: This study calibrates and validates the measurement of granulocyte maturation [Immature granulocytes (IG)] to the identification of sepsis, a study carried out on a Sysmex Analyzer, model XE 2100 (Kobe, Japan). The Sysmex IG parameter is a crucial measure of immature granulocyte counts and includes metamyelocytes and myelocytes, but not band neutrophils.
Results and conclusions: We found agreement with previous work that designated an IG measurement cut-off of 3.2 as optimal. The analysis was then carried a step further with a multivariable discriminator.
Keywords: bacteremia; flow cytometry; hemogram; immature granulocyte; sepsis; systemic inflammatory response syndrome
Received: 2011-5-16
Accepted: 2011-7-29
Published Online: 2011-9-21
Published in Print: 2011-12-1
©2011 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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Keywords for this article
bacteremia;
flow cytometry;
hemogram;
immature granulocyte;
sepsis;
systemic inflammatory response syndrome
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