A prospective study on adrenal cortex responses and outcome prediction in acute critical illness: Results from a large cohort of 203 mixed ICU patients

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2116-2121

  Dimopoulou, Ioanna ^a   Stamoulis, Konstantinos ^a   Ilias, Ioannis ^b   Tzanela, Marinella ^c   Lyberopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Orfanos, Stylianos ^a   Armaganidis, Apostolos ^a   Theodorakopoulou, Maria ^a   Tsagarakis, Stylianos ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HELENA VENIZELOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d Department of Endocrinology   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adrenal androgens; Cortisol responses; Critical illness; Low dose ACTH test; Outcome prediction; Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTERONE DERIVATIVE; CORTICOTROPIN; DEHYDROPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; HYDROCORTISONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX FUNCTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SURVIVAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 36448988584     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-007-0790-0     Document Type: Article

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