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Title: | Prediction of High-Grade Vesicoureteral Reflux after Pediatric Urinary Tract Infection: External Validation Study of Procalcitonin-Based Decision Rule |
Author: | Leroy, Sandrine Bouissou, François Fernández López, Anna Gurgoze, Metin K. Karavanaki, Kyriaki Ulinski, Tim Bressan, Silvia Vaos, Geogios Leblond, Pierre Coulais, Yvon Luaces Cubells, Carles Aygun, A. Denizmen Stefanidis, Constantinos J. Bensman, Albert DaDalt, Liviana Gardikis, Stefanos Bigot, Sandra Gendrel, Dominique Bréart, Gérard Chalumeau, Martin |
Keywords: | Infeccions del tracte urinari Pediatria Urinary tract infections Pediatrics |
Issue Date: | 28-Dec-2011 |
Publisher: | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
Abstract: | Background: Predicting vesico-ureteral reflux (VUR) ≥3 at the time of the first urinary tract infection (UTI) would make it possible to restrict cystography to high-risk children. We previously derived the following clinical decision rule for that purpose: cystography should be performed in cases with ureteral dilation and a serum procalcitonin level ≥0.17 ng/mL, or without ureteral dilatation when the serum procalcitonin level ≥0.63 ng/mL. The rule yielded a 86% sensitivity with a 46% specificity. We aimed to test its reproducibility. Study design: A secondary analysis of prospective series of children with a first UTI. The rule was applied, and predictive ability was calculated. Results: The study included 413 patients (157 boys, VUR ≥3 in 11%) from eight centers in five countries. The rule offered a 46% specificity (95% CI, 41-52), not different from the one in the derivation study. However, the sensitivity significantly decreased to 64% (95%CI, 50-76), leading to a difference of 20% (95%CI, 17-36). In all, 16 (34%) patients among the 47 with VUR ≥3 were misdiagnosed by the rule. This lack of reproducibility might result primarily from a difference between derivation and validation populations regarding inflammatory parameters (CRP, PCT); the validation set samples may have been collected earlier than for the derivation one. Conclusions: The rule built to predict VUR ≥3 had a stable specificity (ie. 46%), but a decreased sensitivity (ie. 64%) because of the time variability of PCT measurement. Some refinement may be warranted. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029556 |
It is part of: | PLoS One, 2011, vol. 6, num. 12, p. e29556 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/175204 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029556 |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Cirurgia i Especialitats Medicoquirúrgiques) |
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