FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of clinical diagnosis and relates to the use of procalcitonin in a method for predicting the risk of developing an adverse event in a patient with stable chronic heart failure or suspected stable chronic heart failure. This method comprises: determining the level of procalcitonin or fragments thereof with a chain length of at least 12 amino acids in a bodily fluid sample of said patient; correlation of said level of procalcitonin or its fragments with the risk of developing an adverse event in this patient, wherein said correlation step comprises comparing said level of procalcitonin or fragments thereof with a threshold level. If this level of procalcitonin or its fragments exceeds the threshold level, this patient has an increased risk of getting an adverse event, wherein the value of said threshold level is in the range between 0.015 ng/ml and 0.03 ng/ml.
EFFECT: prognosis of adverse events in patients with suspected chronic heart failure is suggested.
10 cl, 2 ex, 7 tbl, 9 dwg
