Acute intestinal failure in critically ill patients: Is plasma citrulline the right marker?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 911-917

  Piton, Gaël ^a,c,d   Manzon, Cyril ^a   Cypriani, Benoit ^a   Carbonnel, Franck ^b   Capellier, Gilles ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^b BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Bâtiment Socrate   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Acute intestinal failure; Multiple organ failure; Plasma citrulline; Small bowel

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CITRULLINE;

ACUTE INTESTINAL DISTRESS SYNDROME; ACUTE INTESTINE FAILURE; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; APACHE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CITRULLINE BLOOD LEVEL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROPATHY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE VILLUS; INTESTINE VILLUS ATROPHY; INTRAABDOMINAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORTALITY; NOMENCLATURE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CITRULLINE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ENTEROCYTES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE;

EID: 79959740797     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-011-2172-x     Document Type: Review

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