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ArticleJournal of the American College of Surgeons2010

Diagnosis-dependent relationships between cytokine levels and survival in patients admitted for surgical critical care.

Tjasa Hranjec, Brian R Swenson, Lesly A Dossett, Rosemarie Metzger, Tanya R Flohr, Kimberley A Popovsky, Hugo J Bonatti, Addison K May, Robert G Sawyer

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Article in Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Clinical review: Statins and trauma--a systematic review.Critical care (London, England) · 2013
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  16. Severe traumatic head injury affects systemic cytokine expression.Journal of the American College of Surgeons · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tjasa HranjecDivision of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Brian R Swenson
Lesly A Dossett
Rosemarie Metzger
Tanya R Flohr
Kimberley A Popovsky
Hugo J Bonatti
Addison K May
Robert G Sawyer
University of Virginia · USVanderbilt University Medical Center · US

Funding

Impact of Gender on Infected Hospitalized PatientsR01AI049989 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI SAWYER, ROBERT G · 2001 to 2006
$2.7M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI049989NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI49989-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDeath after trauma, infection, or other critical illness has been attributed to unbalanced inflammation, in which dysregulation of cytokines leads to multiple organ dysfunction and death. We hypothesized that admission cytokine profiles associated with death would differ based on admitting diagnosis. STUDY

designThis 5-year study included patients admitted for trauma or surgical intensive care for more than 48 hours at 2 academic, tertiary care hospitals between October 2001 and May 2006. Cytokine analysis for interleukin (IL)-1, -2, -4, -6, -8, -10, -12, interferon-gamma, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha was performed using ELISA on specimens drawn within 72 hours of admission. Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare median admission cytokine levels between alive and deceased patients. Relative risks and odds of death associated with admission cytokines were generated using univariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression models, respectively.

resultsThere were 1,655 patients who had complete cytokine data: 290 infected, nontrauma; 343 noninfected, nontrauma; and 1,022 trauma. Among infected patients, nonsurvivors had higher median admission levels of IL-2, -8, -10, and granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor; noninfected, nontrauma patients had higher IL-6, -8, and IL-10; and nonsurviving trauma patients had higher IL-4, -6, -8, and TNF-alpha. IL-4 was the most significant predictor of death and carried the highest relative risk of dying in trauma patients, and IL-8 in nontrauma, noninfected patients. In infected patients, no cytokine independently predicted death.

conclusionsCytokine profiles of certain disease states may identify persons at risk of dying and allow for selective targeting of multiple cytokines to prevent organ dysfunction and death.

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Critical CareAgedCohort StudiesCytokinesDiagnosis-Related GroupsFemaleHospitalizationHospital MortalityHumansInfectionsMaleMiddle AgedRetrospective StudiesSurvival RateWounds and InjuriesCytokines

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PMID20421061
PMCPMC2861048
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