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ArticleScientific reports2021

Pharmacokinetics of anti-infective agents during CytoSorb hemoadsorption.

Antoine G Schneider, Pascal André, Joerg Scheier, Monika Schmidt, Heiko Ziervogel, Thierry Buclin, Detlef Kindgen-Milles

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
44citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
8.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

44 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Cytokine hemoadsorption with CytoSorbCritical care (London, England) · 2023
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  9. Impact of extracorporeal circuits on systemic drug levels - a scoping review.Journal of anesthesia, analgesia and critical care · 2026
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  11. Antibiotics and Other Drugs Removal by the CytoSorbAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  15. Hemoadsorption in septic shock - CON.Intensive care medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Antoine G Schneider *Adult Intensive Care Unit, BH08-610, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), 46, Avenue du Bugnon 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland. antoine.schneider@chuv.ch.
Pascal André *Clinical Pharmacology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Joerg ScheierCytoSorbents Europe GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
Monika SchmidtMedical Competence Center Berlin/Brandenburg C/o HCx Consulting GmbH, Wendisch Rietz, Germany.
Heiko ZiervogelMedical Competence Center Berlin/Brandenburg C/o HCx Consulting GmbH, Wendisch Rietz, Germany.
Thierry BuclinClinical Pharmacology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Detlef Kindgen-MillesDepartment of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
University Hospital of Lausanne · CHSupply Chain Competence Center (Germany) · DECytoSorbents (Germany) · DEDüsseldorf University Hospital · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytokine hemoadsorption might be beneficial in patients with sepsis. However, its effect on anti-infective agents' disposition remains largely unknown. We sought to determine the influence of hemoadsorption on the pharmacokinetics of common anti-infective agents. This is an interventional experimental study, conducted in 24 healthy pigs. Animals were randomly allocated to either hemoadsorption (cases) or sham extracorporeal circuit (controls) and to drug combinations (3 cases and 3 controls for each combination). Hemoadsorption was performed with CytoSorb (CytoSorbents Corporation, USA). We evaluated 17 drugs (clindamycin, fluconazole, linezolid, meropenem, piperacillin, anidulafungin, ganciclovir, clarithromycin, posaconazole, teicoplanin, tobramycin, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin, metronidazole, liposomal amphotericin B, flucloxacillin and cefepime). Repeated blood sampling from the extracorporeal circulation (adsorber inlet/outlet, sham circuit) was performed over six hours following administration. Total clearance and adsorber-specific clearance were computed. Hemoadsorption was associated with increased clearance of all study drugs, except ganciclovir. Its impact on total body clearance was considered as moderate for fluconazole (282%) and linezolid (115%), mild for liposomal amphotericin B (75%), posaconazole (32%) and teicoplanine (31%) and negligible for all other drugs. Hemoadsorber clearance declined over time, with even delayed desorption for beta-lactams. It was moderately correlated with drug's lipophilicity (p = 0.01; r

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AdsorptionAnimalsAnti-Infective AgentsExtracorporeal CirculationFemaleMaleSepsisSwineAnti-Infective Agents

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PMID34006946
PMCPMC8131695
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