Angiopoietin-2, a regulator of vascular permeability in inflammation, is associated with persistent organ failure in patients with acute pancreatitis from the United States and Germany

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2287-2292

  Whitcomb, David C ^a   Muddana, Venkata ^a   Langmead, Christopher J ^b   Houghton Jr , Frank D ^a   Guenther, Annett ^c   Eagon, Patricia K ^a   Mayerle, Julia ^c   Aghdassi, Ali A ^c   Weiss, F Ulrich ^c   Evans, Anna ^a   Lamb, Janette ^a   Clermont, Gilles ^a,d   Lerch, Markus M ^c   Papachristou, Georgios I ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 1; ANGIOPOIETIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; VASCULITIS; ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; BLOOD; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGED; ANGIOPOIETIN-1; ANGIOPOIETIN-2; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957851368     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2010.183     Document Type: Article

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