Publications by authors named "S A Berliner"
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has a significant impact on health. MetS is the umbrella term for a group of interdependent metabolic threats that contribute to the emergence of diseases that can lead to death. This study was designed to better predict the risks associated with MetS to enable medical personnel to make more optimal preventive medical decisions.
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- The study aimed to analyze C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in patients with different types of infections, including viral infections and bacteremia, to understand how CRP behaves during acute infections.
- Using electronic medical records, the researchers tracked CRP levels in hospitalized patients and found that the patterns of CRP varied depending on the infection type and whether patients received antibiotic treatment.
- Results showed that viral infections had lower CRP levels, while Gram-negative bacteremia had the highest peaks, indicating that monitoring CRP could help with diagnosis and assessing risk in hospitalized patients.
Background: Acute kidney injury associated with the underlying inflammatory process of an acute bacterial infection affects patient morbidity and mortality. Clinicians use creatinine and estimated glomerular filtration rate (EGFR) to assess this renal injury, however, these measures may lag behind and change only once significant kidney injury has occurred. Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is up-regulated by inflammation and infection and may serve as an early detection biomarker of kidney injury.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Serum ferritin is usually measured in the presence of anemia or in suspected iron overload syndromes. Ferritin is also an acute-phase protein that is elevated during systemic inflammation. However, the prognostic value of routinely measuring ferritin upon admission to a medical facility is not clear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The C-reactive protein (CRP)-troponin-test (CTT) comprises simultaneous serial measurements of CRP and cardiac troponin and might reflect the systemic inflammatory response in patients with acute coronary syndrome. We sought to test its ability to stratify the short- and long-term mortality risk in patients with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI).
Methods: We examined 1,675 patients diagnosed with NSTEMI on discharge who had at least two successive measurements of combined CRP and cardiac troponin within 48 h of admission.