Evaluation of the Course of Acute-Phase Reactants in the Postoperative Period of Newborns and Their Diagnostic Utility in Identifying Postoperative Sepsis.

Diagnostics (Basel) · 2026 · PMC12939169 · PMID 41750694

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For culture-proven sepsis, no significant associations were observed with biomarkers at 24 and 120 h ( p > 0.05); only CRP levels at 72 h were independently and significantly associated with culture-proven sepsis ( p = 0.049), whereas PCT levels did not reach statistical significance and showed only borderline significance ( p = 0.063) ( Table 5 ). 4.

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