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  • Title: Diagnostic accuracy of sTREM-1 to identify infection in critically ill patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome.
    Author: Latour-Pérez J, Alcalá-López A, García-García MA, Sánchez-Hernández JF, Abad-Terrado C, Viedma-Contreras JA, Masiá M, González-Tejera M, Arizo-León D, Porcar MJ, Bonilla-Rovira F, Gutiérrez F.
    Journal: Clin Biochem; 2010 Jun; 43(9):720-4. PubMed ID: 20303344.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVES: To assess the accuracy of plasma levels of soluble Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid cells (sTREM)-1 to diagnose infection in critical patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). DESIGN AND METHODS: We prospectively studied 114 patients with SIRS criteria. The patients' plasma levels of sTREM-1 were measured within 24h of admission to the intensive care unit. The final diagnosis of infection was made independently by two investigators, who were blinded to the levels of sTREM-1. RESULTS: The area under the ROC curve of sTREM-1 for the diagnosis of sepsis was 0.62 (95% confidence interval [95% CI] 0.51-0.72). The diagnostic odds ratio of sTREM-1 after adjusting for the Infection Probability Score and procalcitonin plasma levels was 1.81 (95% CI 0.66-4.98; p=0.2508). CONCLUSIONS: In critical patients admitted with SIRS, sTREM-1 has poor discriminative power to identify patients with infection, and sTREM-1 levels do not add diagnostic information to that provided by other routinely available clinical tests.
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