Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) in sepsis correlates with the severity of sepsis and the outcome

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1248-1251

  Rintala, Esa ^a   Peuravuori, Heikki ^b   Pulkki, Kari ^c   Voipio Pulkki, Liisa Maria ^c   Nevalainen, Timo ^b  

^a SATAKUNTA CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bactericidal permeability increasing protein; Creactive protein; Intensive care unit; Interleukin 8; Phospholipase A2; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 8; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLOOD PROTEINS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-8; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

EID: 0033802399     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340000616     Document Type: Article

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