ArticleInfectious disease reports2016
Interleukin-6 Kinetics can be Useful for Early Treatment Monitoring of Severe Bacterial Sepsis and Septic Shock.
Article in Infectious disease reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03643367 (Sevoflurane Sedation), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Sevoflurane Sedation: A Potentially Promising Immunomodulation in Patients With Septic Shock
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Temporal Changes in Inflammatory Markers and Laboratory Parameters in Relation to Risk of Neonatal Sepsis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Identifying the thresholds of C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, and interleukin-6 among children ≤36 months' old with fever without source at risk of serious bacterial infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Review
- Longitudinal measurements of inflammatory mediators in patients at risk of sepsis in the Emergency Department.Annals of intensive care · 2026Article
- Protocol for the diagnostic performance of C reactive protein, procalcitonin and interleukin-6 for serious bacterial infections among children ≤36 months old presenting with fever without source: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ paediatrics open · 2024Article
- Different Biomarker Kinetics in Critically Ill Patients with High Lactate Levels.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Correlation of Troponin Level (Troponin T, Troponin I) With PELOD-2 Score in Sepsis as a Predictive Factor of Mortality.Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences · 2019Article
- Reduction in the IL-6 level at 24 h after admission to the intensive care unit is a survival predictor for Vietnamese patients with sepsis and septic shock: a prospective study.BMC emergency medicine · 2018Article
- The Importance of Haemogram Parameters in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Septic Patients.Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2017Review
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Abstract
Early appropriate anti-microbial therapy is necessary to improve outcomes of septic patients. We describe 20 case histories of patients with severe bacterial sepsis regarding kinetics of several biomarkers. We found that interleukin-6 is able to predict survival and might be able to evaluate appropriateness of anti-microbial therapy.
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