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<journal-id>1870-7203</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Acta médica Grupo Ángeles]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Acta méd. Grupo Ángeles]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1870-7203</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Grupo Ángeles, Servicios de Salud]]></publisher-name>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S1870-72032019000300225</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Procalcitonina como predictor de reintervención en pacientes postoperados de cirugía abdominal]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Procalcitonin as a predictor of reintervention in post-operative abdominal surgery patients]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Arredondo Ortiz]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Mario Alberto]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Hernández Amador]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[JF]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Cortés Romano]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[JJP]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad La Salle Facultad Mexicana de Medicina ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Ciudad de México ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Ángeles Pedregal  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Ciudad de México ]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>17</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<fpage>225</fpage>
<lpage>229</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1870-72032019000300225&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1870-72032019000300225&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1870-72032019000300225&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen:  Objetivo:  Determinar si los niveles séricos de procalcitonina sérica en pacientes postoperados de cirugía abdominal predicen la necesidad de reintervención quirúrgica.  Material y métodos:  Estudio retrospectivo en el que se analizaron los niveles séricos de procalcitonina de 46 pacientes internados en una Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos posterior a cirugía abdominal en un año, y su asociación con la necesidad de reintervención quirúrgica.  Resultados:  Los valores de procalcitonina fueron de forma significativa más elevados (en pacientes que requirieron reintervención, en comparación a los no reintervenidos (9.12 ± 9.11 ng/mL versus 2.96 ± 4.0 ng/mL (p &#8804; 0.05, IC95%), respectivamente). La PCT de &#8805; 1.19 ng/mL fue el valor con mejor sensibilidad (84.2%) y especificidad aceptable (55.6%) para predecir la necesidad de reintervención, con un área bajo la curva de 0.75. Los pacientes con cirugía de colon y recto con niveles de PCT igual o mayor a este punto de corte tuvieron un riesgo significativamente mayor de reintervención.  Conclusión:  Los valores de PCT sérica podrían ayudar a reconocer la necesidad de reintervención quirúrgica en pacientes postoperados de cirugía abdominal, con una mayor sensibilidad para pacientes operados de cirugía colorrectal aunque se debe correlacionar de manera clínica cada paciente debido a la baja especificidad de esta prueba en este contexto en particular.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract:  Objective:  To determine whether serum procalcitonin levels in patients with abdominal surgery predict the need for surgical reintervention.  Material and methods:  Retrospective analysis of serum procalcitonin levels in 46 patients admitted to an intensive care unit after abdominal surgery within a one-year period, and its association with the need of surgical reintervention.  Results:  Serum procalcitonin values were significantly more elevated in patients who required surgical reintervention, compared to patients who did not required reintervention (9.46 ± 9.25 ng/mL vs 2.96 ± 3.93 ng/mL (p &#8804; 0.05, CI95%), respectively). Serum PCT &#8805; 1.19 ng/mL resulted as the value with a higher sensibility (84.2%) and fair specificity (55.6%) in predicting the need for surgical reintervention, with an area under the curve of 0.75. Patients who were subject to colorectal surgery with PCT levels equal or higher to this cut-off point had a significantly higher risk of surgical reintervention.  Conclusion:  Serum PCT levels could help recognize the need for surgical reintervention in patients submitted to abdominal surgery, with a higher sensibility in patients with colorectal surgery, although it should be clinically individualized to each patient due to the low specificity of this test in this particular context.]]></p></abstract>
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