Procalcitonin and Postoperative Outcome After Open-heart Surgery

"Serum PCT, CRP, and lactate values were collected postoperatively every day starting on postoperative 12 hours, postoperative days 1 through 5.~After the operation, all postoperative complications were recorded during the first seven days period.~The relations between diagnostic tests and postoperative complications are sought by the use of the statistical analysis methods."