Plasma concentration of Gc-globulin is associated with organ dysfunction and sepsis after injury

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 152-156

  Dahl, Benny ^a   Schiødt, Frank V ^b   Ott, Peter ^b   Wians, Frank ^a   Lee, William M ^a   Balko, Jody ^a   O'Keefe, Grant E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GELSOLIN; VITAMIN D BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEPHELOMETRY; ORGAN INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEXAS; VITAMIN D-BINDING PROTEIN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0037251539     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200301000-00024     Document Type: Article

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