Publications by authors named "Maria Teresa Nieto"
Background: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) can be classified into sub-phenotypes according to different inflammatory/clinical status. Prognostic enrichment was achieved by grouping patients into hypoinflammatory or hyperinflammatory sub-phenotypes, even though the time of analysis may change the classification according to treatment response or disease evolution. We aimed to evaluate when patients can be clustered in more than 1 group, and how they may change the clustering of patients using data of baseline or day 3, and the prognosis of patients according to their evolution by changing or not the cluster.
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- The study investigates the effectiveness of procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) as biomarkers for identifying bacterial coinfection in COVID-19 patients admitted to ICUs in Spain.
- Of 4,076 patients studied, only 3% had bacterial coinfection, and while PCT and CRP showed high negative predictive values, their overall predictive capability was found to be low.
- The findings indicate that measuring PCT and CRP at hospital admission is not a reliable method for diagnosing bacterial coinfection in COVID-19 pneumonia patients.
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