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ReviewMicroorganisms2023

Clinical Sepsis Phenotypes in Critically Ill Patients.

Georgios Papathanakos, Ioannis Andrianopoulos, Menelaos Xenikakis, Athanasios Papathanasiou, Despoina Koulenti, Stijn Blot, Vasilios Koulouras

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Review in Microorganisms, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed
8.2field-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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Update on sepsis treatment.Journal of intensive care · 2026
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  19. Biomarkers as Beacons: Illuminating Sepsis-Associated Hepato-Renal Injury.International journal of molecular sciences · 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

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Georgios PapathanakosDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2521-5326
Ioannis AndrianopoulosDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-9609-2728
Menelaos XenikakisDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
Athanasios PapathanasiouDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
Despoina KoulentiUQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QL 4029, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-4364-2612
Stijn BlotDepartment of Internal Medicine & Pediatrics, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-2145-0345
Vasilios KoulourasDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
University Hospital of Ioannina · GRGhent University · BEThe University of Queensland · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sepsis, defined as the life-threatening dysregulated host response to an infection leading to organ dysfunction, is considered as one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, especially in intensive care units (ICU). Moreover, sepsis remains an enigmatic clinical syndrome, with complex pathophysiology incompletely understood and a great heterogeneity both in terms of clinical expression, patient response to currently available therapeutic interventions and outcomes. This heterogeneity proves to be a major obstacle in our quest to deliver improved treatment in septic critical care patients; thus, identification of clinical phenotypes is absolutely necessary. Although this might be seen as an extremely difficult task, nowadays, artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques can be recruited to quantify similarities between individuals within sepsis population and differentiate them into distinct phenotypes regarding not only temperature, hemodynamics or type of organ dysfunction, but also fluid status/responsiveness, trajectories in ICU and outcome. Hopefully, we will eventually manage to determine both the subgroup of septic patients that will benefit from a therapeutic intervention and the correct timing of applying the intervention during the disease process.

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heterogeneitymachine learningphenotypeprecision medicinesepsis

Identifiers

PMID37764009
PMCPMC10538192
OpenAlexW4386221161

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