... et al.: Successful treatment of HIV-associated multicentric Castleman’s disease andmultipleorganfailure with rituximab and supportive care: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 ... reflecting better understanding of HIV-associated disease, the availability of new combination antiretroviral therapy, the improved care of HIV patients both outside and within the ICU, and protective ... acknowledge the expert and dedicated contribution of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and all other health care professionals involved in the care of this patient Author details Department of Intensive...
... Definition for sepsisandorganfailureand guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis The ACCP/SCCM Consensus Conference Committe American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical ... group (nonresponders) there were 11 cases of bacterial pneumonia and seven cases ofsepsisof extrapulmonary origin among medical patients, and two cases of peritonitis among surgical patients No ... failures, as did our patients, had a mortality rate of 92% The duration of lactic acidosis was found to be a good predictor ofmultipleorganfailure [21], and early lactate clearance was associated with...
... Care Med 2001, 27:978-986 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) The EPISEPSIS Study Group: EPISEPSIS: a reappraisal of the epidemiology and outcome of severe sepsis in French intensive ... intensive care unit patient with multipleorganfailure Crit Care Med 2000, 28:947-949 Martin C, Viviand X, Leone M, Thirion X: Effect of norepinephrine on the outcome of septic shock Crit Care Med ... severity of illness in such patients because it takes into account two of the main parameters that have been reported to be associated with high mortality rates in sepsis (i.e renal failureand persistent...
... coagulopathies and disorders of the autonomic and peripheral nervous systems [7] There have been few data published describing the effect of an episode of multiple- organfailure on the long-term survival of ... examine the long-term survival of chronic dialysis patients who had survived an episode of multiple- organ failure, and to compare this with the survival of a group of chronic dialysis patients ... patients with multiple- organfailure is about 20 to 25% [8] Our data suggest that chronic dialysis patients presenting with multiple- organfailure have, at 44%, a relatively high risk of dying during...
... response and cardiac function [11,12] Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), the precursor of androstendione, testosterone, and estrogen, is synthetized in gonads and adrenal glands of both males and females, ... septic organ dysfunction in the aged animal are available Rozenberg and colleagues [33] determined the degree of dysfunction of isolated and perfused hearts from young and old rats (3 months and ... [45] O’Dwyer and colleagues [46] estimated the serum plasma level of ADMA and IL-6 on days and after intensive care unit admission in patients with severe sepsisand septic shock and evaluated...
... all models because of its wide range of topics and word usages, and its clean organization of document by topic We used the April 2010 snapshot of the Wikipedia corpus (Shaoul and Westbury, 2010), ... Communications of the ACM, 38:39–41 Jeff Mitchell and Mirella Lapata 2008 Vector-based models of semantic composition In In Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, pages 236–244 Andriy Mnih and Geoffrey Hinton ... bat” and “the Word Located downtown along the east bank of the Des Moines River Inside the ruins , there are bats and a bowl with Pokeys that fills with sand over the course of the race , and...
... attitudes and awareness ofsepsis Poeze and colleagues [33] surveyed physicians’ attitudes about sepsisand their awareness of American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine ... management ofsepsisand MODS Because of its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties [23], N-acetylcysteine is an attractive agent for modulating the response to sepsis Hein and colleagues ... pathogenesis of septic shock and MODS [26] Memis and colleagues [27] conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of lornoxicam, an inhibitor of cyclooxygenase, in patients with severe sepsis (n...
... Thijs LG: The SOFA (Sepsisrelated OrganFailure Assessment) score to describe organ dysfunction /failure On behalf of the Working Group on Sepsis- Related Problems of the European Society of Intensive ... cardiovascular system LODS, Logistic Organ Dysfunction Score; MODS, MultipleOrgan Dysfunction Score; SOFA, Sequential OrganFailure Assessment failing organ systems and related interventions We also ... Figure Graphical representation of the performance of LOD, SOFA and MODS: cardiovascular system Shown are data of another patient, illustrating differences between organfailure scores in assessing...
... Figure Survival of 322 trauma patients with no organ failure, single organ failure, andmultipleorganfailure treated in the intensive care unit unit the SOFA score and the MultipleOrgan Dysfunction ... categorized into no organ failure, single organ failure, andmultipleorganfailure No organfailure (n = 81; 25 percent) Median ISS ISS
... that the admission SOFA score, SOFA Max, and the changes in SOFA over the first 48 hours are correlated with mortality [9] Ulvik shows that measuring SOFA score on admission and SOFA max may categorise ... identification of patients who, developing MOF, are at major risk of poor longterm survival and impaired functional status Is this a suggestion for a standardisation of scoring MOF in trauma? ... favour of sequential organfailure assessment (SOFA) in trauma patients SOFA was initially presented for assessing morbidity in septic patients, but has been validated also in trauma and in general...
... nitric oxide content of septic exosomes was significantly greater than that of healthy control individuals Taken together, the studies of Gambim and colleagues andof Azevedo and colleagues suggest ... Because of the deleterious effects of transfusion [30], this feature of early goal-directed therapy remains one of the most controversial of the protocol This survey preceded a randomized trial of ... pathophysiology and treatment ofsepsis N Engl J Med 2003, 348:138-150 Sriskandan S, Altmann DM: The immunology ofsepsis J Pathol 2008, 214:211-223 Boman HG: Antibacterial peptides: basic facts and emerging...
... the genetic analyses and the writing of the manuscript WHMP performed the GSTA1-1 and GSTP1-1 analyses PP, NPR, and PS supervised the conduct of the study and the writing of the paper JGvdH corrected ... baseline and 6.0 [5.6 to 6.4] mg/mL hour after caffeine infusion (n = 10) The effect of lipopolysaccharide infusion on end -organ injury Vascular dysfunction Plasma levels of ICAM and VCAM, markers of ... concentrations of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines (TNF-a, IL-6, IL-10, and IL1RA) are shown in Figure Thus, caffeine administration and the presence of the 34C > T variant of the AMPD1 gene...
... occurs as a result of the effects of SIRS There may be a latent period between the initial event and the subsequent organfailure SEPTIC SHOCK AND MULTI- ORGANFAILURE Which organ systems may ... maldistribution of blood f low ᭹ Alterations in the number and type of gut f lora What is the mortality associated with organ failure? ᭹ Mortality from renal failure is around 8% ᭹ Mortality from renal failure one ... introduced after it was shown that less than 50% of those who exhibited features ofsepsis had positive blood cultures S SEPTIC SHOCK AND MULTI- ORGANFAILURE What is the systemic inflammatory response...
... syndrome (MODS, also known as multipleorganfailure (MOF) or multipleorgan system failure [10]) caused by zymosan Multipleorgan dysfunction syndrome is a cumulative sequence of progressive deterioration ... multipleorgan dysfunction syndrome (MODS), multipleorganfailure (MOF): are we winning the battle? Shock 1998, 10(2):79-89 Marshall JC: Inflammation, coagulopathy, and the pathogenesis ofmultiple ... laboratory using standard laboratory techniques For the evaluation of acid base balance and blood gas analysis (indicator of lung injury) arterial blood levels of pH, PaO and PaCO and bicarbonate...
... Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran) STAT and 2-ME titers were 1:80 and 1:40 respectively Titer of Coombs test was 1:80 Enzymelinked immunosorbent assay (IBL, Germany) for IgG and IgM was negative ... a relapse of brucellosis with signs and symptoms similar to the previous episode of the infection The standard treatment regimen was started again He is now receiving this treatment and is asymptomatic ... treatment Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007, 1:53 The central nervous system is involved in 5–7% of cases and such complications often have an...
... day 13) and 80IU unfractionated heparin/kg/day on day There was no other causal treatment Despite early treatment, multipleorganfailure (MOF) with kidney failure requiring dialysis and ventilatordependent ... cyclosporine A; MOF, multipleorganfailure Consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and accompanying images A copy of the written consent ... antagonist with up-regulation of the endothelium release of t-PA, nitric oxide, prostacyclin, prostaglandin E2 and thrombomodulin, as well as downregulation of the release of plasminogen activator-inhibitor...
... ofsepsis that other cardiovascular mediators, such as prostaglandins and endothelin, released by cardiac endothelium, may contribute to restore cardiac contractile performance [10] Azevedo and ... Critical Care Vol 12 No Mebazaa the time ofsepsis insult keep a footprint of the first injury for the remaining days of their life? Exosomes might act via free radical release ... be the source of these mediators [1] In summary, platelets might be a forgotten source of mediators that alter heart function during sepsis Many questions are raised by Azevedo and coworkers’...
... least common manifestation oforganfailure in patients with MOF However, despite reversal of shock, there are still patients who have DIC and coagulopathy is a predictor of mortality if it persists ... tranexamine, and aprotinin Recently, Ono and colleagues [24] reported that the degree of ADAMTS 13 deficiency in DIC patients is associated with both the degree of renal failureand the likelihood of resolution ... new-onset thrombocytopenia, organ failure, and elevated LDH and an underlying predisposing condition (Table 1) Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Poor outcomesof these processes are...