title: The significance of protein S-100B testing in cardiac arrest patients.
abstract: Cardiac arrest often represents the first expression of an underlying cardiac disease. Despite advances in neurocritical care, the neurological assessment of cardiac arrest patients relies on clinical, instrumental and biochemical parameters. The clinical significance of S-100 calcium binding protein B (S-100B) has substantially increased throughout several areas of clinical neuroscience, but reliable evidences attest it can be used as a reliable and early predictor of poor physiological and cognitive neurological outcomes after cardiac arrest.
authors: U.O. Diagnostica Ematochimica, Dipartimento di Patologia e Medicina di Laboratorio, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Parma, Italy. giuseppe.lippi@univr.it
authors: Giuseppe
authors: G
authors: Lippi
authors: Rosalia
authors: R
authors: Aloe
authors: Filippo
authors: F
authors: Numeroso
authors: Gianfranco
authors: G
authors: Cervellin
mesh_terms: D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D010751:Phosphopyruvate Hydratase / Q000378:metabolism; D009418:S100 Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D009418:S100 Proteins; D010751:Phosphopyruvate Hydratase