Circulating levels of the long pentraxin PTX3 correlate with severity of infection in critically ill patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1404-1407

  Muller, Beat ^c   Peri, Giuseppe ^a   Doni, Andrea ^a   Torri, Valter ^a   Landmann, Regine ^c   Bottazzi, Barbara ^a   Mantovani, Alberto ^a,b  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

C reactive protein; Calcitonin precursors; Critically ill patients; Infection; Inflammation; Interleukin 6; Pentraxins; Sepsis; Septic shock

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; PENTRAXIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034953739     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200107000-00017     Document Type: Article

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