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Engineers will work through the night to restore power to hundreds of homes, after severe gales brought disruption to much of the UK on Thursday.More than 140,000 properties in eastern England suffered earlier power cuts after 83mph (134kph) gusts damaged power lines, UK Power Networks said.Across the UK, high winds brought down trees and damaged homes.A weather warning for snow and ice is in place for Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England until Friday.In Norfolk and Suffolk, 3,500 homes are still without power. And the Queen was left to have her tea and cakes in the dark when her annual appointment with the Sandringham WI was disrupted by a power cut. Chairwoman Yvonne Browne, who decided to go ahead with the event despite losing heating and lighting at West Newton village hall, said the Queen was "laughing and smiling" throughout.While wind speeds have dropped, forecasters said the wintry conditions would continue in north western parts.The Met Office warned of further travel delays and power cuts, saying some rural communities may become cut off.National Rail said high winds had damaged overhead power lines between Stowmarket and Norwich, blocking the line between Norwich and London Liverpool Street, disrupting services for the rest of Thursday.
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Liisa Rantalaiho is known in Finnish science fiction fandom as a founding member of Spektre, a science fiction society in Tampere, a long-time judge of the Portti short story competition, and a book reviewer for Portti magazine, as well as a writer and performer of filk songs. The Finnish Science Fiction Writers Association awarded her with the Cosmos Pen Award in 2006 for her groundbreaking work as an advocate of Finnish science fiction literature.
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This serial father, originally from Columbia, SC, puts on airs of being the perfect husband, father, and provider; he goes through life pulling the wool over people's eyes so that others believe he is an upstanding citizen. But the ugly truth is this: In addition to his latest family – and, let's face it: who knows how long that will last, given his track record – he has other children (teenagers) who he does not see and does not support, i.e. serial father. He hasn't seen his older children in about two years, and he does not send them presents for birthdays or holidays; those children do not have even the basic necessities of life on a regular basis due to his persistent delinquency with child support payments. His child support payments are significantly in arrears. To stay one step ahead of the law, he changes jobs frequently so that his wages cannot be garnished for too long. He belongs in jail!!!
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So, even though my birthday was on a Thursday, I took the liberty of celebrating throughout the weekend. I celebrated with all the most important people in my life, on separate days of course. After a night of drinks, another night of movies and fabulous food, and several get out of "diet jail' free cards, I was finally ready to celebrate the last day of my birth week with my mom and fam.
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You can't go wrong with your most perfect fitting jeans, holographic python flats with metal plated tips, and a sequin mustache sweatshirt. Not to mention the most perfect bag that I purchased so many moons ago and had sitting in a dust bag for over a year... waiting for the right moment to rock it.
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An Open Letter to the Michigan Legislature
HB 5232 and SB 720 are, at their essence, a selfish slap in the face to generations of Michigan citizens, both past and future, bills that are threatening to deprive each and every one of us of an economically stable future. These bills, unlike PA 169 at it's birth, emerge in response to no crisis at all, NONE.
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HB 5232 is an irresponsible attempt to remove such protections, politicize a process currently codified, and induce, over time, the erosion of a legacy held dear by the citizens of Michigan, under the fashionable and deceptively used GOP battle cry "property rights'.
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If enacted, HB 5232 eliminates our greatest tool in halting impending demolition in the 11th hour. Here is the kicker, and why I believe Afendoulis is jamming this legislation through: relevant to the proposed Cass Park District which threatens Ilitch's right to demo the aforementioned three buildings, under HB 5232, creating the new Cass Park Historic District would require not only enactment by the City Council but a majority approval by vote in the next public election, a delay that would afford the Ilitch demolition team plenty of time.


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Ten minutes later, I could hear something moving in a nearby bush. I stare cautiously at it.
This is bad, if more demons appear now, this will be the end…
"Lute, you're okaayyyyy!"
Ah, it is a demon…..No, it's just Sensei.
"Ah, Bagiran Sensei….."
I recognized the figure of Bagiran, relief swept over my body.
Ah, this isn't good. I can't pass out now, Sensei will try to carry me back!
I managed to focus the remaining energy I had left and forced myself to stay conscious
"I'm fine, but I don't have enough magical power to finish it off….."
I say this and move my eyes toward the fallen demon.
The demon had come close to escaping the traps, but because I had squeezed out every last drop of magical power and had placed several traps on it, the demon still remained on the ground.
Fortunately, it seems the demon was out of magical power as well. It has only been able to let out the occasional groan and claw at the ground.
It's also gasping for breath, it seems the demon has used its last remaining energy trying to escape from the traps.
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"Leave it to me. Hmph!"
Just like that, Bagiran activated his strength enhancing magic.
Bagiran's already massive body increases even further in size.
Skilled users of strength enhancing magic can make their skin as strong as iron armor.
And Bagiran proceeded to beat the demon with all of his strength.
Ah, truly Sensei. His strength is amazing and he's only using strength enhancing magic.
"I can carry this thing. Can you walk?"
Bagiran says this while carrying the dead body of the demon.
"Somehow, if I take it slow."
"If not, I'll have to lend a hand and you'll be disqualified."
That's right, I'm in the middle of the time trial. I completely forgot…
For the other three, I need to finish.
I slowly stand up, and begin walking to the finish.
I speak to Bagiran as I continue advancing through the forest.
"Sensei, that demon used water and lightning magic."
Sensei's voice became serious after hearing this.
"There are such demons in the world."
There was no demon like this in the forest under the house where I lived.
There was a strong Big Bear, but that demon was nowhere near as strong as this demon.
After this experience, I had become keenly aware that the world is vast.
"That's right, there are demons in this world that you and I do not know….Come on, just a little further."
I have to finish first.
For those three people, I can't get disqualified.
Then, dozens of minutes later, I reached the finish.
"Haa…haa…I've arrived, haa…."
Finally, I somehow reached the finish. I sat down right at the goal line.
I can see three people running towards me.
"Lute, are you alright!?"
"Everyone….I'm fine, I'm glad that everyone made it back safely."
I raise my trembling arms and try to tell them I'm fine.
After this I am supposed to go with Bagiran to the doctor, so I don't want to worry these three anymore than I already have.
"I'm so glad…..!"
Luluna sighs with relief.
I'm kind of happy to see she was so worried about me.
I noticed that something cold was gently patting me….Is this….a hand?
"What are you doing, Patricia?"
As I noticed her, Patricia continued patting my body.
"Kerokero, are you really fine, kero? Even if you don't notice it while fighting, you might be injured and not realize it kero."
"Gah, stop it that tickles, I'm really okay."
I'm glad that she's worried, but this is really ticklish.
As I was trying to get Patricia to stop tickling me, Tsurugi spoke to me.
"Lute-dono, they wanted to express their gratitude to you."
As she said this, she turned to the people from the general class standing behind her.
"Umm, thank you very much! Honestly!"
Ah, are these the students that were injured back there?
It seems they've all received treatment, and they appear to have all recovered completely.
With this bright atmosphere, I'm guessing nobody died or has been seriously injured.
I feel relieved knowing this.
I felt a heavy burden fall from my shoulders. If any had died I would have regretted it for the rest of my life.
"Thanks, but I wasn't the only one that helped you…."
After I responded to the student I could feel my consciousness slowly start to slip away.
Huh? Am I really this tired….?
I could no longer remain awake, and collapsed on the ground.
"Ah, Sensei! Lute!"
"Oh, don't worry about him. He's used up all of his magic and is completely exhausted."
Ah, I get it.
Sensei answered my question.
"Don't worry, take as much time as you need to rest."
As I was just barely able to make out Bagiran's face, my consciousness faded to black.
Apparently I was asleep. The last thing I remember is the face of Bagiran…..I was so tired it was like I fainted. No, I may have actually fainted.
Well, either way it's fine.
I still feel a little groggy. I get up slowly and rub my eyes.
My blurry vision gradually begins to focus—
"Hey, Lute-kun."
For some reason Elgil was sitting in a chair next to my bed.
….What kind of situation is this?


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Hello, everyone! I am over at The Ton's blog today! I'm sharing 2 Thanksgiving cards I created with our new Thankful Cornucopia stamp set and coordinating dies. I used both larger centerpiece image as well as the little coordinating images from the set to create 2 different looks. Hope you would stop by and check out how I made these cards!
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Packing For Fashion Week
sweatshirt: self made
beanie: Topman
iphone case: Pantone
box: Maison Martin Margiela jewelry packaging
Yeah, as if. As if packing my bags for Fashion Week looked something like this. Reality is more like a big pile of stuff on the bed /wires, chargers, necessities like a toothbrush and creams, notebooks, camera lenses, sneakers, heels, more clothes, some underwear and spare socks/ that has to all fit into a 55cmx40cmx20cm(you know how strict those airlines are) luggage piece. Made it work by bringing lots of practical basics -as usual- and put some extra time into picking the right accessories.
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The Project Reality Mod Team and Black Sand Studios are proud to announce the official release of the Project Reality v0.75 Client Patch and Server Update!
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In November 1997 the guitar-tech. of famous legendary Russian band "Korroziya Metalla" Max Laiko known as "Max with Bolt" became the guitarist of "Koroziya Metalla" replacing the guitarist Konstantin Lepatov. Also Max Laiko became a vocalist of "Korrozia Metalla" wihle the lead-guitarist and vocalist Boroff leaved the band. So Max had to give up his main project "Empire Rising", but the desire to
In April 2001 the demo 'Who Deals The Pain' was being released in compact cassets by indi-label "Hobgoblin records".
In February 2002 Manic Depression won the competition from the 'Play' magazine for the beginning bands due to the sound being much heavier than that of rivals, and its 'Words of Hate' title song was released on the official magazine's CD – "Play – Russkaya Sborka" (Play – Russian Release).
In spring 2003 the band decided to re-recorded demo for the first official album and started the recording; drum-set was recorded at the Chernyi Obelisk Studio (Black Obelisk) and the rest of music – at the own band's studio – PowerSkya Studios. The final mastering in the middle of summer was done at VMH Studio and the band signs contract with Metalagen / Soyuz.
In October 26 Manic Depression officially presented its first СD "Who Deals The Pain", which was very well met by the public and critics. At that moment there emerged a conflict as a result of which the band had to part ways with its drummer Vasilij Kazurov. After 4 months of search, he was replaced by Alexandr Vetkhov (Orgiya Pravednikov (Saint Men Orgy) band) and Manic Depression immediately started to work at the next album.
In autumn 2006 – spring 2007 the band recorded mini-album "You'll Be With Us Again" which instantly gave Manic Depression the title of the best thrash metal band of post-Soviet Union territory. This EP contains three brand new kicking ass tracks, Twisted Sister's cover "Come Out And Play" and a new version of the song "As We Rising Inferno" (LP Planned Spiritual Decay) with Russian lyrics and with participation of the guest singer Shura Bi-II (former of pop-rock band Bi-II).
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I was so tired this Monday morning. I stayed up last night watching a new show (at least new to me)called I Can Make You Thin. Have you seen this? The idea is that people eat for reasons other than hunger; we often eat for emotional reasons.
A woman on the show headed for her stash of chocolate goodies every time she talked to her ex-husband and gained oodles of pounds. He had been having an affair with her sister-in-law. Please! Good riddance! But that's another show. Anyway, she tapped her way to a substantial weight loss.
You just use two fingers and tap on the acupuncture pressure points. I saw tapping on the cheek bone, forehead, chin, and collar bone. It is supposed to keep you from food cravings that result from emotional needs.
Every time she talked to her ex, she tapped him (& the chocolate goodies) out of her life. I've been tapping a lot today, but it's too soon to tell if it's going to come between me and my dark chocolate chips.
You know, chocolate (actually cocoa) got me through my Atkins phase. My daughter's boyfriend had to come over and remove all my carbs. He found me in the kitchen eating out of a can of Hershey's cocoa.
I'll let you know how it goes. But if you spot a woman driving around tapping on her check bones, do not become alarmed.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Tap, tap, tapping my way to a thinner me
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Keywords: Screen Window Pixel Coordinate Absolute Relative Virtual 1000 Dialog Unit Upper Lower Bottom Top Left Right Corner X Y Point
WinBatch has functions that deal with three basic types of screen coordinates:
[x,y] [*]--------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | ----------------------------[*] [x,y]A window coordinate, in WinBatch, is a string variable (actually a list) containing four numbers separated by commas or spaces. These four numbers define two points on the screen. The first number is the "X" coordinate of the first point, the second number is the "Y" coordinate of the first point, the third number is the "X" coordinate of the second point, and finally the fourth number is the "Y" coordinate of the second point.
The "0,0" point is in the upper left of the screen, and the "999,999" point is at the lower right.
With just these two points, WinBatch can size and place a number of items.
Coordinates are based on a virtual 1000 x 1000 screen. "x-upper left corner", "y-upper left corner", "x-bottom right corner", and "y-bottom right corner" are based on a logical screen that is 1000 points wide by 1000 points high.
The benefit of the 1000x1000 screen is that it helps users easily calculate relative screen positions regardless of screen resolution. The drawback is possible loss of precision, caused by screens with with resolutions greater than 1000 pixels to be scaled down to 1000. One way to avoid this is to grab and save the coordinates from the beginning of the script and do all calculations from that initial point. You avoid 'coordinate creep' that way.
On multi-monitor systems the 1000 x 1000 virtual screen units may have some counter-intuitive behavior when you have multiple monitors that operate at different resolutions.
For Example:
If you have 3 monitors with the resolution 1600 x 1200, here are the screen coordinates for each monitor:
Zoomed windows can return values greater than 1000 or less than 0 (negative values). For example, the "x-upper left corner" and "y-upper left corner" coordinate is returned as -3. This is simply how Windows works. The Windows OS intentionally sets the size of a maximized window to be outside the boundaries of it's work area by default (i.e. WinZoom). This has to do with how a maximized window's border invisibility is handled. WinZoom simply maximizes a window so the results reported by WinPosition are accurately reflecting the maximized window's size and position. If you were to call the underlying Win32 APIs directly, you would see the same effect in pixels.
You might be better off using WinPlaceGet rather than WinPosition.
You should check the state of the window using WinState before calling any function that returns virtual 1000 x 1000 screen coordinates. Then use WinPlaceGet to deal with zoomed or iconized windows because it returns different values based on the state of the window. The returned value is a string of either 2 or 4 numbers, as follows:
Iconic windows "x y" (upper left corner of the icon) Normal windows "upper-x upper-y lower-x lower-y" Zoomed windows "x y" (upper left corner of the window)Here is a code sample showing the different values returned by WinPosition and WinPlaceGet.
Run('Notepad.exe','') ;ICONIZE WINDOW ISSUE title = "~Notepad" WinIconize( "~Notepad" ) place = WinPlaceGet(WinState( title ), "~Notepad") pos = WinPosition("~Notepad") Pause('Notepad results -@ICONIZE','WinPlaceGet = ':place:@LF:'WinPosition = ':pos) ;ZOOM WINDOW ISSUE title = "~Notepad" WinZoom( title ) place = WinPlaceGet(WinState( title ), title ) pos = WinPosition(title) Pause('Notepad results - @ZOOMED','WinPlaceGet = ':place:@LF:'WinPosition = ':pos) WinClose('~Notepad') Exit
Functions: BoxBitmap, BoxButtonDraw, BoxDrawCircle, BoxDrawLine, BoxDrawRect, BoxDrawText, BoxesUp, BoxmapMode, BoxNew,
IntControl 63, MouseCoords, MouseInfo, MouseMove, WinPlace, WinPlaceChild, WinPlaceGet, WinPlaceSet, WinPosition,
Dialog Units:
Dialog Units are used primarily by the Dialog function. Dialog units are based on the system font, DPI, and screen resolution. System font is defined as the default font defined by Windows. Dialog Units basically speaking: 1 width unit = 1/4 width of system font and 1 height unit = 1/8 height of system font.
Functions: Dialog, IntControl 75, Dialog {UserDefinedCallback}, WinMetrics.
The WinMetrics function in the Windows Interface Language help file can help you figure out what current Dialog unit size is.
pixperunit_horz = WinMetrics(-5) pixperunit_vert = WinMetrics(-6)Use WinMetrics to translate dialog units to pixels:
ScreenWidth = WinMetrics(0)/WinMetrics(-6) ;Determine screen width in dialog units ScreenHeight = WinMetrics(1)/WinMetrics(-5) ;Determine screen height in dialog units Message (ScreenWidth,ScreenHeight)This information can be used for calculations as follows:
DlgWidth = ScreenWidth*0.663 ;Make a dialog 2/3 width of screen DlgHeight= ScreenHeight*0.5 ;Make a dialog 1/2 height of screen DlgX=(ScreenWidth-DlgWidth) /2 ;Determine X co-ordinate for a dialog to be centered DlgY=(ScreenHeight-DlgHeight)/2;Determine Y co-ordinate for a dialog to be centered
Coordinates expressed in Windows virtual screen pixel coordinates, in the format: "left,top,right,bottom". A few functions (see below) can return virtual screen pixel coordinates, but only one known function accepts these coordinates as a parameter. That is SysParamInfo 47 SetWorkArea.
How do I get the size of the active windows in pixels?
winpos = WinPosition(WinGetactive()) xulc = ItemExtract(1, winpos, ",") yulc = ItemExtract(2, winpos, ",") xbrc = ItemExtract(3, winpos, ",") ybrc = ItemExtract(4, winpos, ",") width = (xbrc - xulc) * WinMetrics(0) / 1000 height = (ybrc - yulc) * WinMetrics(1) / 1000 Message(width, height)
Functions: MouseInfo, SysParaminfo, WinMetrics and {DllCalls to Windows API Functions}
; Converts horizontal dialog units to pixels. (x axis) #DefineFunction ToPixelsHorizontal(du) Return Int(du*WinMetrics(-6)) #EndFunction ; Converts vertical dialog units to pixels. ( y axis) #DefineFunction ToPixelsVertical(du) Return Int(du*WinMetrics(-5)) #EndFunction ; Test data. nDuX = 40 ; Horizontal dimension in du. nDuY = 11 ; Vertical dimension in du. ; Test. nPixelsX = ToPixelsHorizontal( nDuX ) nPixelsY = ToPixelsVertical( nDuY ) ; Result. Message("Dialog Units x = %nDuX%, y = %nDuy%", "Pixels x = %nPixelsX%, y = %nPixelsY%")
sWorkArea = SysParamInfo(48, "", 0) iLeft = ItemExtract(1, sWorkArea, ",") iTop = ItemExtract(2, sWorkArea, ",") iRight = ItemExtract(3, sWorkArea, ",") iBottom = ItemExtract(4, sWorkArea, ",") ; Calculation : WorkArea multiplied by 1000 then divided by actual screen height. ; xulc = iLeft*1000/WinMetrics(0) ; yulc = iTop*1000/WinMetrics(1) ; xbrc = iRight*1000/WinMetrics(0) ; ybrc = iBottom*1000/WinMetrics(1) ; More Precise MulDiv Calculation xulc = DllCall(DirWindows(1):"kernel32.dll",long:"MulDiv",long:iLeft,long:1000,long:WinMetrics(0)) yulc = DllCall(DirWindows(1):"kernel32.dll",long:"MulDiv",long:iTop,long:1000,long:WinMetrics(1)) xbrc = DllCall(DirWindows(1):"kernel32.dll",long:"MulDiv",long:iRight,long:1000,long:WinMetrics(0)) ybrc = DllCall(DirWindows(1):"kernel32.dll",long:"MulDiv",long:iBottom,long:1000,long:WinMetrics(1)) Pause('GetWorkArea Window Resize Results',xulc:',':yulc:',':xbrc:',':ybrc) title = '' ; Blank string refers to the Main WIL window WinPlace( xulc, yulc, xbrc, ybrc, title ) TimeDelay(5) Exit
winpos = WinPosition(WinGetactive()) xulc = ItemExtract(1, winpos, ",") yulc = ItemExtract(2, winpos, ",") xbrc = ItemExtract(3, winpos, ",") ybrc = ItemExtract(4, winpos, ",") width = (xbrc - xulc) * WinMetrics(0) / 1000 height = (ybrc - yulc) * WinMetrics(1) / 1000 Message(width, height)
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Usefulness of presepsin in the diagnosis of sepsis in patients with or without acute kidney injury
© Nakamura et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
- Received: 21 February 2014
- Accepted: 24 September 2014
- Published: 4 October 2014
Presepsin is useful for differentiating sepsis from non-infection related systemic inflammatory response syndrome. However, there are no studies investigating the usefulness of presepsin in diagnosing sepsis involving patients with acute kidney injury (AKI). The purpose of this study is to determine levels of blood presepsin in patients with or without sepsis and among non-AKI patients or patients with different degrees of AKI severity.
This is a single center retrospective study. 247 patients admitted to the ICU between June 2010 and October 2012 were analyzed for their presepsin levels. We classified the patients into non-AKI and AKI according to the RIFLE (Risk, Injury, Failure, and Loss of kidney function and End-stage kidney disease or simply Loss and ESKD) criteria. We then sub-classified the patients in each group into either non-sepsis or sepsis sub-group and analyzed the accuracy of diagnosing sepsis based on their levels of presepsin.
The number of patients for each group was: non-AKI, 112; under AKI: Risk, 50; Injury, 36; Failure, 42; Loss and ESKD, 7. The levels of presepsin in sepsis groups were significantly higher than that in the non-sepsis group among the non-AKI, Risk and Injury patients (p < 0.0001, p < 0.01, p < 0.01, respectively). However, no significant difference in the level of presepsin between non-sepsis and sepsis groups among patients with Failure. In the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, the area under the curve (AUC) was 0.784 in the non-AKI group and 0.698 in the AKI comprising Risk, Injury and Failure groups. AUC value for non-AKI was not significantly different from that of AKI (p = 0.200). When 670 pg/mL was used as the cutoff value for presepsin, sensitivity and specificity were 70.3% and 81.3%, respectively. When 864 pg/mL was used as the cutoff value for presepsin, sensitivity and specificity were 71.4% and 63.8%, respectively.
Presepsin level can be a reliable indicator of sepsis not only among non-AKI patients but also patients with less severe forms of AKI. However, it may not be a reliable indicator of sepsis in patients with a more advanced form of AKI.
- Presepsin
- Acute kidney injury
- RIFLE criteria
- Sepsis
- Diagnosis
Since the definition of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) was proposed in 1991, several clinical trials on sepsis diagnosis and treatment have been conducted using the definition of sepsis given by the American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine (ACCP/SCCM) [1]. Many studies have reported that early treatment of sepsis using appropriate antibiotics improved the prognosis and increased the survival rate in severe sepsis or septic shock patients [2–4]. Various biomarkers have been studied for diagnosing sepsis [5]. Currently, procalcitonin (PCT) is used as a marker to diagnose sepsis or severe sepsis. In comparison to other markers that have traditionally been reported, PCT gives a high rate of specificity for sepsis diagnosis [6]. However, the concentration of PCT in the human blood is elevated in various conditions, such as in severe trauma, surgical invasive procedures, and critical burn injury, which leads to SIRS. It is also necessary to be aware of false-positive results [7]. Therefore, more reliable biomarkers for the diagnosis of sepsis are needed. Another marker is interleukin-6 (IL-6), which may be detectable in the early stages of infection and bacteremia [8, 9]. Recently Endo et al. [10] reported that presepsin is a highly specific marker for diagnosis of bacterial infections in comparison to other sepsis markers (PCT, IL-6). However, the presepsin levels above the cutoff value in patients with chronic renal failure must be interpreted with caution. Additionally, there are no studies investigating the usefulness of presepsin for assessing patient with acute kidney injury (AKI). In this study we attempted to clarify the diagnostic accuracy of sepsis using the presepsin level according to AKI severity of the patients.
Presepsin measurement
The frozen serum was allowed to melt to become liquid at room temperature before presepsin testing. Presepsin concentration in blood was measured with a compact automated immunoanalyzer, PATHFAST®, based on a chemiluminescent enzyme immunoassay (CLEIA) (Mitsubishi Chemical Medience, Japan) [12, 13].
Classification of acute kidney injury
Oliguria and RIFLE were the most frequently used criteria to define AKI. In particular, RIFLE criteria were formulated to make a clearer classification of AKI among patients having renal problems [14]. Therefore, we used RIFLE criteria for AKI diagnosis in this study.
RIFLE criteria 11)
RIFLE classification
GFR criteria
Urine output criteria
Increased serum creatinine × 1.5 or GFR decrease > 25%
Urine output < 0.5 ml/kg/h × 6 hr
Increased serum creatinine × 2 or GFR decrease > 50%
Urine output < 0.5 ml/kg/h × 12 hr
Increased serum creatinine × 3 or GFR decrease > 75%, serum creatinine ≧ 4 mg/dL (acute rise > 0.5 mg/dL)
Urine output < 0.3 ml/kg/h × 24 hr or Anuria × 12 hr
Persistent ARF = complete loss of kidney function > 4 weeks
End Stage Kidney Disease (>3 months)
Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)
Statistical analysis
Continuous variables are presented as median and range. Groups were compared by Wilcoxon test. Analysis of the values of area under curve (AUC) of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves was performed to determine the significance of presepsin levels in diagnosing sepsis. The Youden index was used to identify the cutoff values for presepsin levels that may have diagnostic significance. Correlations between presepsin levels and Cr or eGFR were evaluated by the Spearman's rank test. All statistical analyses in this study were performed using JMP® version 10 and MedCalc® version 13. P value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
The background of patients
Metabolism, Endocrine, Allergic disease
Circulatory disease
Stroke, Epilepsy
Respiratory disease
Heat stroke
Bone and soft tissue infection
Liver disease
Abdominal cavity or intestinal infection
Drug poisoning
Urinary tract infection
Renal disease
Abdominal cavity or intestinal infection
Bone and soft tissue infection
Urinary tract infection
Focus unknown
Results of bacteriological examination in sepsis patients
Etiologic agent*
Not detected or not examined
Gram negative rods
Gram positive coccus
Gram positive coccus and Gram negative bacillus
Gram positive coccus and Fungus
Gram positive coccus and Gram negative bacillus and Fungus
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Loss of the kidney function and End-stage renal disease character of patients
Patient* no.
Presepsin (pg/mL)
The background of patients
Renal disease
Urinary tract infection
Presepsin is a 13-kDa protein that is a fragment of CD14 with truncated N-terminal, the receptor for lipopolysaccharide (LPS)/LPS binding protein (LBP) complexes [16, 17]. An in vivo study using rabbit sepsis models showed that presepsin level did not increase in the LPS-induced sepsis model whereas elevation of presepsin level was observed in a cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) sepsis model. It was speculated that the infectious stimulus led to the elevation of presepsin level. One of the production mechanisms of presepsin is related to the phagocytosis process and cleavage of membrane CD14 with lysosomal enzymes of granulocytes in an in vitro study using rabbit peritoneal leukocyte [18]. The biological function of presepsin, however, remains unknown [17]. Recently, presepsin is considered a novel marker for the diagnosis of sepsis that has been shown to increase in blood in the early stages of sepsis [19]. A multicenter prospective study by Endo et al. [10] showed that presepsin is a highly specific marker for diagnosis of bacterial infections in comparison to other sepsis markers (PCT, IL-6).
In the present study, we observed that presepsin was significantly increased in sepsis patients with non-AKI and patients with milder forms of AKI (Risk and Injury) compared to non-sepsis groups. Furthermore, the median value of presepsin increased with increasing severity of AKI both in the non-sepsis and sepsis groups. The optimal cutoff value of presepsin in non-AKI group was 670 pg/mL (a result similar to that by Endo et al. [10]) while the optimal cutoff value of presepsin in the AKI group (Risk, Injury and Failure groups combined) was significantly higher at 864 pg/mL. However, when the Failure group was separately analyzed, the result is that presepsin levels among patients with sepsis are not significantly different than those with non-sepsis in this particular group of AKI patients. Despite the limited number of patients in Loss and ESKD group, the levels of presepsin were consistently and abnormally high in all patients, whether they have sepsis or not (see Table 4). It is therefore suggested that further study is needed to establish cutoff value of presepsin for each level of AKI severity to diagnose sepsis in these groups of patients.
As to how our body clears the blood of presepsin remains unknown. In this study, our data show that there is moderate positive correlation between presepsin and Cr, and also moderate negative correlation between presepsin and eGFR in non-sepsis groups that were significantly similar to that of the sepsis groups. These results suggest that kidney is the major organ responsible in eliminating presepsin from blood. Since renal function could be considered a major determinant of presepsin level, it is therefore logical that different thresholds of presepsin levels (according to the status of renal function) be applied to diagnose sepsis.
Many studies have reported that early treatment of sepsis using appropriate antibiotics improved the prognosis and increased the survival rate in severe sepsis or septic shock patients [2–4]. Moreover, patients with AKI are susceptible to many complications such as those that may be caused by sepsis; and conversely, the most common cause of AKI in critically ill patients is sepsis [20], thus making early diagnosis and treatment of sepsis very important.
Blood culture is frequently used as the "gold standard" diagnostic method for diagnosing sepsis. However, blood culture usually takes 3 to 7 days to obtain the results and frequently yields low true positive results [21]. Therefore, in general practice, the decision to treat patient for sepsis is based on the doctor's own experience (empiric therapy). Any quick tests that indicate sepsis will certainly improve the physician's changes of making the right diagnosis of sepsis. Presepsin testing could be one of these tests. Presepsin levels in blood are known to increase in the first 6 hr after the onset of sepsis. These changes in concentration occurred on a much faster time scale than those observed for PCT or CRP [22]. The PATHFAST® presepsin assay reveals its result within 17 min. This is faster than the other methods of detecting presepsin by ELISAs [22, 23]. The PATHFAST® presepsin assay can be performed using whole blood. Whole blood samples are suitable for use in the emergency room, ICU, and the surgical operation room, thus making this present study on presepsin more meaningful.
Some limitations in our study deserve consideration. First, this retrospective single center study only involved a small number of samples; second, we did not compare presepsin to other promising biomarkers of bacterial infection that have been recently proposed, such as PCT and IL-6; third, we did not consider the effect of cellular immunity status of the patients (such as patients under chemotherapy, steroids treatment, etc.) on presepsin level; and fourth, bacterial culture was not considered in the diagnosis of sepsis. Further studies are therefore needed to address the limitations of this study cited above.
Blood presepsin level can be a reliable indicator of sepsis not only among non-AKI patients but also patients with less severe forms of AKI. However, it may not be a reliable indicator of sepsis in patients with a more advanced form of AKI, such as those classified under RIFLE criteria as having failure of kidney function, loss of kidney function and end-stage kidney disease.
We sincerely thank Mr. Yoshikazu Okamura of the Mitsubishi Chemical Medience Corporation for his advice regarding this research, and Ms. Kanae Misumi of the Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University for her help in data encoding.
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