Interleukin-6 kinetics can be useful for early treatment monitoring of severe bacterial sepsis and septic shock

• Asıl Yazarlar: Thomas Klag (Yazar), Giulio Cantara (Yazar), Udo Sechtem (Yazar), Anastasios Athanasiadis (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: MDPI AG, 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Konular: article
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Early appropriate anti-microbial therapy is necessary to improve outcomes of septic patients. We describe 20 case histories of patients with severe bacterial sepsis regarding kinetics of several biomarkers. We found that interleukin-6 is able to predict survival and might be able to evaluate appropr...