Interleukin-6 and its soluble receptor during acute meningococcal infections: Effect of plasma or whole blood exchange

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1801-1805

  Frieling, Johan T M ^a   Van Deuren, Marcel ^a   Wijdenes, John ^b   Van Dalen, Roelof ^a   Bartelink, Anton K M ^c   Van Der Linden, Cees J ^a   Sauerwein, Robert W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Diaclone   (France)

^c EEMLAND HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bacterial infection; critical illness; cytokines; infection; Interleukin 6; interleukin 6 receptor; mediators; Neisseria meningitidis; plasma exchange

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-6; SHOCK;

EID: 0029800806     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199611000-00007     Document Type: Article

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