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The goal of the study was to determine the contents of the aromatic metabolites and biomarkers in the CSF samples of the post-neurosurgical patients (n = 82) and their potential diagnostical significance for the evaluation of the risk of post-neurosurgical meningitis. Patients with signs of post-neurosurgical meningitis (n = 30) had lower median values of glucose and higher values of cell count, neutrophils, lactate, protein, 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)lactic acid (p-HPhLA), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) than patients without signs of post-neurosurgical meningitis (n = 52). ROC analysis for IL-6 and p-HPhLA resulted in 0.785 and 0.734 values of the area under the ROC curve, with sensitivity 96.30 and 66.67%; specificity 54.17 and 82.69%, respectively. IL-6 should be considered as a non-specific biomarker, in contrast to the microbial metabolite p-HPhLA. If the concentration of p-HPhLA was more or equal to 0.9 \u00b5mol\/L, the risk of bacterial complications was 9.6 times higher. p-HPhLA is a promising marker for the prognosis of post-neurosurgical meningitis, and its determination on a larger group of post-neurosurgical patients can subsequently prove its diagnostic significance for the verification of CNS infections.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jpm12030399","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,6]],"date-time":"2022-03-06T20:38:16Z","timestamp":1646599096000},"page":"399","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["4-Hydroxyphenyllactic Acid in Cerebrospinal Fluid as a Possible Marker of Post-Neurosurgical Meningitis: Retrospective Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6470-0485","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alisa K.","family":"Pautova","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, 25-2 Petrovka, 107031 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2970-7176","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anastasiia Yu.","family":"Meglei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, 25-2 Petrovka, 107031 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9316-8907","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ekaterina A.","family":"Chernevskaya","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, 25-2 Petrovka, 107031 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Irina A.","family":"Alexandrova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Medical Research Center for Neurosurgery named after Academician N.N. 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