• Department of Emergency, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China;
HUHai, Email: hhtg2014@126.com
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Objective To systematically review the diagnostic value of procalcitonin (PCT) for tuberculous pleural effusion. Methods We electronically searched CNKI, WanFang Data, VIP, CBM, PubMed, The Cochrane Library and EMbase from inception to April, 2013, to collect the literature about the diagnostic value of PCT for tuberculous pleural effusion compared with gold standard (positive outcomes of mycobacterium tuberculosis culture). Two reviewers screened literature according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, extracted data, and assessed the quality of included studies. MetaDiSc 1.4 were used to conduct the meta-analysis. Results Eight studies were finally included. The results of meta-analysis showed the pooled sensitivity and specificity were 0.63 (95%CI 0.58 to 0.68) and 0.76 (95%CI 0.70 to 0.81), respectively. The positive likelihood ratio and negative likelihood ratio were 2.72 (95%CI 1.48 to 5.02) and 0.49 (95%CI 0.29 to 0.82), respectively. The diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) was 5.77 (95%CI 1.89 to 17.58). And the SROC AUC was 0.79. Heterogeneity was mainly derived from the QUADAS score and Begg's test showed there was no presence of publication bias. Conclusion PCT is a potential marker in the diagnosis of benign and tuberculous pleural effusion, which can be used to determine diagnosis identification of tuberculous pleural effusion.

Citation: JIANGYao-wen, LIUPeng, TANGShi-yuan, HUHai. Diagnostic Value of Procalcitoninfor Tuberculous Pleural Effusion: A Meta-Analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2014, 14(6): 716-720. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20140121 Copy

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