Procalcitonin and Interleukin-6 for predicting culture negative and culture positive bacterial sepsis in critically ill patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Mat Nor, Mohd Basri and Md Ralib, Azrina (2016) Procalcitonin and Interleukin-6 for predicting culture negative and culture positive bacterial sepsis in critically ill patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome. International Medical Journal Malaysia, 15 (Supplement issue). p. 85. ISSN 1823-4631

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Abstract

Introduction: Differentiation between culture-negative bacterial sepsis (BS), culturepositive BS and non-infectious systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) among critically ill patients remains a diagnostic challenge to the intensive care unit (ICU) physicians. This study aimed to evaluate the role of procalcitonin (PCT) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) in predicting non-infectious SIRS, culture-negative BS and culture-positive BS in the ICU. Methods: This prospective observational study was conducted in a tertiary ICU in Pahang. The patients were divided into sepsis and non-infectious SIRS based on clinical assessment with or without positive cultures. Patients with positive cultures were further divided into bacteraemia and positive other culture. The PCT and IL-6 were measured daily over the first 3 days. Results: Two hundred and thirty nine consecutive patients diagnosed with SIRS were recruited, of whom 164 (69%) had sepsis. Among sepsis patients, there were 62 (37.8%) culture positive and 102 (62.2%) culture negative. Of these, 27 (16.5%) develop bacteraemia. The most common site of infection was respiratory (34.4%). Post-LSD analyses showed significant difference in the PCT between culture negative sepsis and SIRS (p=0.01); and positive other culture and SIRS (p=0.04). On the other hand IL-6 cannot differentiate between SIRS and negative culture sepsis (p=0.06). Both PCT and IL-6 predicted bacteraemia with an AUC of 0.70 (0.57 to 0.82) and 0.68 (0.53 to 0.70). IL-6 is independently associated with bacteraemia and other culture after adjusting for age, sex, hypertension, SAPS II score and day 1 PCT. Conclusions: Procalcitonin but not Interleukin-6 is able to differentiate SIRS from culture-negative BS. However, IL-6 is independently associated with bacteraemia and other culture.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	5608/54001
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Procalcitonin, interleukin-6,culture-negative sepsis, SIRS
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Medicine > Department of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care
Depositing User:	Dr. Mohd Basri Mat Nor
Date Deposited:	10 Jan 2017 16:57
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2017 15:39
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/54001

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