<p>Indications of Liver Resection.</p>

In this prospective observational study conducted from August 2021 to July 2022, 42 patients undergoing LR were enrolled and divided into two groups based on the presence (n = 22) or absence (n = 20) of POC.

Serum procalcitonin (PCT), white blood cell count (WBC), and C-reactive protein (CRP) were measured on the first, third, and seventh postoperative days (POD). Median serum PCT levels were significantly higher in patients with POC on all PODs (POD1: 1.71 vs. 0.53 µg/L, p = 0.001; POD3: 0.69 vs. 0.23 µg/L, p = 0.001; POD7: 0.48 vs. 0.10 µg/L, p = 0.003), whereas WBC and CRP did not differ between groups. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) for serum PCT was 0.798 (95% CI: 0.655–0.927), 0.797 (95% CI: 0.648–0.920), and 0.769 (95% CI: 0.614–0.898) on POD1, POD3, and POD7, respectively, indicating that POD1 serum PCT showed moderate discriminatory ability for the broad composite endpoint.