Usefulness of Acute Phase Reactant Score in the Neonatal Period

Toshihiko Nakamura, MD, PhD, is a clinical professor at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan, and Director of Neonatology at the Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital in Tokyo. He is the author of "Prophylactic effects of recombinant human superoxide dismutase in neonatal lung injury induced by the intratracheal instillation of endotoxin in piglets" in the Journal of Neonatal Biology (2001), "Study on the Usefulness of APR Scores from the Viewpoint of Proinflammatory Cytokines" in Disease Markers (2015), and "The mechanism of onset in neonatal leukemoid reaction: synergistic effects of proinflammatory cytokines including interleukin-6" in Advances in Medicine and Biology (2020).Haruo Goto, MD, PhD, is Honorary Director of Nagoya City University West Medical Center, Japan. He is the author of "Diagnostic significance of serum orosomucoid level in bacterial infection during neonatal period" in Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica (1973), and "Evaluation of APR-Score (acute-phase reactants score) as screening test of the neonatal infection." in Acta Neonatologica Japonica (1974).