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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2024

Septic Hyperinflammation-Is There a Role for Extracorporeal Blood Purification Techniques?

Dominik Jarczak, Stefan Kluge, Axel Nierhaus

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Unraveling NETs in Sepsis: From Cellular Mechanisms to Clinical Relevance.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Dominik JarczakDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0480-2089
Stefan KlugeDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
Axel NierhausDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5493-7964

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This manuscript investigates the role of extracorporeal blood purification techniques in managing septic hyperinflammation, a critical aspect of sepsis characterized by an uncontrolled immune response leading to multiorgan dysfunction. We provide an overview of sepsis, focusing on the dynamics of immune response, the involvement of neutrophils, and the role of the endothelium in the disease's progression. It evaluates the effectiveness of various blood purification methods, including high-cut-off membranes, high-volume hemofiltration, adsorption techniques, and albumin dialysis, in removing cytokines and endotoxin and improving hemodynamic stability. Despite some very promising results, we conclude that the current evidence does not strongly support these techniques in significantly improving survival rates in septic patients, clearly underlining the need for further research.

Indexed as

HemofiltrationSepsisShock, SepticAdsorptionCytokinesHumansRenal DialysisCytokinesblood purificationcytokinesendotoxinextracorporeal therapyhemodynamicsimmune responsesepsisseptic hyperinflammation

Identifiers

PMID38542094
PMCPMC10970398

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