Infection…what else? The usefulness of procalcitonin in children after cardiac surgery

• Sara Bobillo-Perez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sara Bobillo-Perez, Monica Girona-Alarcon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Disorders of Immunity and Respiration of the Pediatric Critical Patients Research Group, Institut Recerca Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Monica Girona-Alarcon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sara Bobillo-Perez, Monica Girona-Alarcon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Disorders of Immunity and Respiration of the Pediatric Critical Patients Research Group, Institut Recerca Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2752-7481

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• Anna Sole-Ribalta ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ ASR, CG, AF, LH and MB also contributed equally to this work. FJC and IJ are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Disorders of Immunity and Respiration of the Pediatric Critical Patients Research Group, Institut Recerca Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Carmina Guitart ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ ASR, CG, AF, LH and MB also contributed equally to this work. FJC and IJ are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Disorders of Immunity and Respiration of the Pediatric Critical Patients Research Group, Institut Recerca Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Aida Felipe ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ ASR, CG, AF, LH and MB also contributed equally to this work. FJC and IJ are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Lluisa Hernandez ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ ASR, CG, AF, LH and MB also contributed equally to this work. FJC and IJ are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Monica Balaguer ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mbalaguer@sjdhospitalbarcelona.org

  ¶‡ ASR, CG, AF, LH and MB also contributed equally to this work. FJC and IJ are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Disorders of Immunity and Respiration of the Pediatric Critical Patients Research Group, Institut Recerca Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2686-116X

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• Francisco Jose Cambra ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ ASR, CG, AF, LH and MB also contributed equally to this work. FJC and IJ are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Iolanda Jordan

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ ASR, CG, AF, LH and MB also contributed equally to this work. FJC and IJ are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, Institut Recerca Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, CIBERESP, Barcelona, Spain

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