Athanassios Zissimopoulos, Theodosia Vogiatzaki, Fotini Babatsikou, Marion Velissaratou, Lukia Baloka, Evangelos Karathanos, Anastasia Pistola, Xristos Christofis, Xristos Iatrou
OBJECTIVE: Subarachnoid haemorrhage is responsible to a great extend for the death rate of patients who are hospitalised in intensive care units (ICU) with haemorrhage. The early detection of its severity plays an important role for the resulting health of the patients. Neurohormone Copeptin is the C-end of pro-arginine vasopressin in plasma has been used as a prognostic marker in a number of various illnesses (acute myocardial infarction, heart and renal failure, acute dyspnoea, intracerebral and subarachnoid haemorrhage, ischaemic stroke, liver cirrhosis, acute pancreatitis)...
September 2015: Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine