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Adrenomedullin as a marker of severity in community acquired pneumonia

Background Stratification of the risk of mortality as well as identifying those patients most susceptible to complications due to pneumonia in the short and long-term, are key in establishing preventive strategies and optimizing treatment.

Methods Cross Sectional Observational Study. Participants: 72 children of 1month to 5.7 (picomol/l) with area under curve of 0.866 with diagnostic accuracy of 84.72% for correctly predicting severe CAP.

Conclusions We concluded that pro-ADM levels found to be high in severe/very severe pneumonia patients as per WHO criteria. Also, in our study higher levels of pro-ADM at the outset suggests need of ICU, Ventilator or longer hospital stays.