Impaired circadian rhythm of melatonin secretion in sedated critically ill patients with severe sepsis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 536-540

  Mundigler, Gerald ^a   Delle Karth, Georg ^a   Koreny, Maria ^a   Zehetgruber, Manfred ^a   Steindl Munda, Petra ^a   Marktl, Wolfgang ^a   Fertl, Lisa ^b   Siostrzonek, Peter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

6 sulfatoxymelatonin; Acrophase; Amplitudes; Circadian rhythm; Cosinor analysis; Critically ill; Intensive care unit; Melatonin; Mesor; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

6 HYDROXYMELATONIN O SULFATE; MELATONIN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; SEPSIS; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; STRESS;

EID: 0036191840     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200203000-00007     Document Type: Article

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