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ReviewAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Vitamin C: Rationale for Its Use in Sepsis-Induced Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).

Alpha A Fowler

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Review in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Targeting sepsis through inflammation and oxidative metabolism.World journal of critical care medicine · 2025
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  9. Appropriately Designed Studies are Needed before Thiamine and Vitamin C Plus Hydrocortisone are Judged Non-beneficial in Septic Shock.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alpha A FowlerDivision of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23219, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1445-8800
Virginia Commonwealth University · US

Funding

Center for Clinical and Translational ResearchUL1TR000058 · NCATS · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI MOELLER, FREDERICK GERARD · 2012 to 2015
$12.5M
Vitamin C Infusion for Treatment in Sepsis Induced Acute Lung Injury (CITRIS-ALI)UM1HL116885 · NHLBI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI FOWLER, ALPHA ALSBURY, HITE, ROBERT DUNCAN · 2013 to 2016
$2.5M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000058NCATS NIH HHS UL1TR000058NHLBI NIH HHS UM1 HL116885
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life-threatening event that occurs in patients suffering from bacterial, fungal, or viral sepsis. Research performed over the last five decades showed that ARDS is a consequence of severe unrestrained systemic inflammation, which leads to injury of the lung's microvasculature and alveolar epithelium. ARDS leads to acute hypoxic/hypercapnic respiratory failure and death in a significant number of patients hospitalized in intensive care units worldwide. Basic and clinical research performed during the time since ARDS was first described has been unable to construct a pharmacological agent that will combat the inflammatory fire leading to ARDS. In-depth studies of the molecular pharmacology of vitamin C indicate that it can serve as a potent anti-inflammatory agent capable of attenuating the pathobiological events that lead to acute injury of the lungs and other body organs. This analysis of vitamin C's role in the treatment of ARDS includes a focused systematic review of the literature relevant to the molecular physiology of vitamin C and to the past performance of clinical trials using the agent.

Indexed as

ARDScell-free hemoglobin (CFH)lung vascular injuryNETosisneutrophil extracellular traps (NETS)reactive oxygen species (ROS)sepsissodium vitamin C transporters SVCT 1 and 2vitamin C

Identifiers

PMID38247519
PMCPMC10812524
OpenAlexW4390820863

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