Stress doses of hydrocortisone in septic shock: Beneficial effects on opsonization-dependent neutrophil functions

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 344-349

  Kaufmann, Ines ^a   Briegel, Josef ^a   Schliephake, Florian ^a   Hoelzl, Alwin ^a   Chouker, Alexander ^a   Hummel, Theresia ^a   Schelling, Gustav ^a   Thiel, Manfred ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrocortisone; Innate immunity; Neutrophil; Opsonization; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INTERLEUKIN 6; NORADRENALIN; PLACEBO; ZYMOSAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; OPSONIZATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 38849102945     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-007-0868-8     Document Type: Article

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