Use of Procalcitonin in Patients on Chronic Hemodialysis: Procalcitonin Is Not Related with Increased Serum Calcitonin

<table>Receiver operating characteristic curves for PCT, CRP, IL-6, WBC, and I/T ratio. The area under the curve for PCT (0.921) was significantly higher than those for CRP (0.853; <svg height="11.25" id="M35" style="vertical-align:-0.30096pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 56.150002 11.25" width="56.150002" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
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</svg>). PCT: procalcitonin; CRP: C-reactive protein; IL-6: interleukin-6; WBC: white blood cell count; I/T ratio: immature and total neutrophil ratio.</table>

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Figure 2: Use of Procalcitonin in Patients on Chronic Hemodialysis: Procalcitonin Is Not Related with Increased Serum Calcitonin 