Adjuvant vitamin C treatment in sepsis-how many oranges a day keep (vasopressor-dependent) septic shock away?

Journal of Thoracic Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages E993-E995

  Honore, Patrick M ^a   Jacobs, Rita ^a   Hendrickx, Inne ^a   De Waele, Elisabeth ^a   Spapen, Herbert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMIDATING ENZYME; ASCORBIC ACID; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; NORADRENALIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CALCIUM OXALATE STONE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GAS EXCHANGE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; HYPEROXALURIA; MORTALITY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; THERMAL INJURY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINE VOLUME; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84991205417     PISSN: 20721439     EISSN: 20776624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2016.08.60     Document Type: Note

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