The Effects of Procalcitonin on Kidney Disease

There are certain situations in which Procalcitonin is not going to help us because it's going to be elevated. Before COVID came along, we were talking about cytokine storms from our oncologic colleagues' manipulations with CAR T cells and immunologic treatment of cancer. I think of it as the literature says macrophage activation syndrome. We've flooded with huge amounts of TNF, interleukin 1,interleukin 2,Interleukin 6, etc., and the Procalcitationonin level goes up. And that's what's happening with some of the COVID patients,. at least with the belly strain before we got to O