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| Name | Class |
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| University Hospital Dubrava | OTHER |
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Infections related to implantable pacemakers or cardioverters defibrillators are sometimes difficult to be diagnosed. Diificulties in the diagnosis include a low sensitivity of standard markers of inflammation such as C-reactive protein or white blood cell count and the diagnosis is mainly based on the clinical presentation. The observational DIRT-study evaluates if new biomarkers may be more suitable to support a diagnosis of device associated infections than the currently available ones.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| device associated infection | patients with proven device associated infection | ||
| control group | patients without device associated infection |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| procalcitonine | procalcitonine is determined at inclusion and correlated to infectíon status | no follow-up |
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Exclusion Criteria:
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Consecutive patients presenting with device associated infections
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University Hospital Dubrava | Zagreb | Croatia | ||||
| Krankenhaus Landshut-Achdorf |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28264059 | Derived | Lennerz C, Vrazic H, Haller B, Braun S, Petzold T, Ott I, Lennerz A, Michel J, Blazek P, Deisenhofer I, Whittaker P, Kolb C. Biomarker-based diagnosis of pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator pocket infections: A prospective, multicentre, case-control evaluation. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 6;12(3):e0172384. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172384. eCollection 2017. |
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| Publication DIRT-Study | View source |
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new inflammatory biomarkers such as procalcitonine
| Landshut |
| Germany |
| Deutsches Herzzentrum | München | Germany |
| Ospedale San Pietro FBF | Rome | Italy |