Blood platelets and sepsis pathophysiology: A new therapeutic prospect in critical ill patients?

Annals of Intensive Care

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Dewitte, Antoine ^a,b   Lepreux, Sébastien ^a,b   Villeneuve, Julien ^c   Rigothier, Claire ^a,b   Combe, Christian ^a,b   Ouattara, Alexandre ^a,b   Ripoche, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Intensive care; Platelets; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADVERSE OUTCOME; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROCIRCULATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 85037164238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21105820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13613-017-0337-7     Document Type: Review

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