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| Secretion (hours from exposure) |
| Starts: 2–3 |
| Peaks: 6 |
| Factors that affect concentration levels |
| Increase |
| Inflammatory disease |
| Trauma: surgery, burns, fracture |
| Myocardial infarction |
| Pancreatitis |
| Renal failure |
| Acute respiratory distress syndrome |
| Fungal infection |
| Drugs: antithymocyte globulin |
| Malignancy: medullary thyroid carcinoma, small-cell lung carcinoma |
| Decrease |
| Early infection |
| Localised infection |
| Subacute endocarditis |
PCT, procalcitonin.
