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ReviewBiomedicines2022

The End of "One Size Fits All" Sepsis Therapies: Toward an Individualized Approach.

Jean-Louis Vincent, Tom van der Poll, John C Marshall

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Review in Biomedicines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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57citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  7. Secreted phospholipase PLA2G5 acts as a hemolytic factor in sepsis.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026
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  13. Breaking the Stalemate: Advancing Sepsis Therapeutics Beyond Supportive Care.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · 2026
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  19. Association of oXirisJournal of personalized medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jean-Louis VincentDepartment of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1070 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-6011-6951
Tom van der PollCenter of Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
John C MarshallDepartments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sepsis, defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to an infection, remains a major challenge for clinicians and trialists. Despite decades of research and multiple randomized clinical trials, a specific therapeutic for sepsis is not available. The evaluation of therapeutics targeting components of host response anomalies in patients with sepsis has been complicated by the inability to identify those in this very heterogeneous population who are more likely to benefit from a specific intervention. Additionally, multiple and diverse host response aberrations often co-exist in sepsis, and knowledge of which dysregulated biological organ system or pathway drives sepsis-induced pathology in an individual patient is limited, further complicating the development of effective therapies. Here, we discuss the drawbacks of previous attempts to develop sepsis therapeutics and delineate a future wherein interventions will be based on the host response profile of a patient.

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biomarkerhost responsepersonalized medicine

Identifiers

PMID36140361
PMCPMC9496597

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