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ArticleCritical care (London, England)2011

Why high suPAR is not super--diagnostic, prognostic and potential pathogenic properties of a novel biomarker in the ICU.

Alexander Koch, Frank Tacke

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Article in Critical care (London, England), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Review
  3. Observational
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. The Relevance of Coding Gene Polymorphysms of Cytokines and Cellular Receptors in Sepsis.Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2017
    Review
  7. Article
  8. Biomarkers of sepsis.Infection & chemotherapy · 2014
    Article
  9. Biomarkers in sepsis.Current infectious disease reports · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexander Koch
Frank Tacke
RWTH Aachen University · DEUniversitätsklinikum Aachen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) has been suggested as a biomarker that reflects immune cell activation. In critically ill patients, several independent investigations have reported elevated suPAR in conditions of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), bacteriemia, sepsis, and septic shock, in which high circulating suPAR levels indicated an unfavorable prognosis. In a prospective cohort study in this issue of Critical Care, suPAR levels were detected in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and identified inhalation injury. High systemic levels indicated an adverse prognosis. This study expands our knowledge of the diagnostic power of suPAR, confirms its prognostic value, and raises the demand for future studies investigating the pathogenic involvement of suPAR.

Indexed as

Respiration, ArtificialBurnsFemaleHumansMaleReceptors, Urokinase Plasminogen ActivatorSmoke Inhalation InjuryReceptors, Urokinase Plasminogen Activator

Identifiers

PMID22182777
PMCPMC3388688
OpenAlexW2006637157

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