Open AccessInterleukin-6 Kinetics Can Be Useful for Early Treatment Monitoring of Severe Bacterial Sepsis and Septic Shock
Author(s) -
Thomas Klag,
Giulio Cantara,
Udo Sechtem,
Anastasios Athanasiadis
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
infectious disease reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.487
H-Index - 17
ISSN - 2036-7449
DOI - 10.4081/idr.2016.6213
Subject(s) - medicine , septic shock , sepsis , severe sepsis , intensive care medicine
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 appropriateness of anti-microbial therapy
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