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

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

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...

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Main Authors: Thomas Klag, Giulio Cantara, Udo Sechtem, Anastasios Athanasiadis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-03-01
Series:Infectious Disease Reports
Subjects:
Interleukin-6
C reactive protein
procalcitonin
bacterial sepsis
monitoring
Online Access:http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/idr/article/view/6213

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