| Literature DB >> 27103972 |
Thomas Klag1, Giulio Cantara2, Udo Sechtem2, Anastasios Athanasiadis2.
Abstract
Early appropriate anti-microbial therapy is necessary to improve outcomes of septic patients. We describe 20 case histories of patients with severe bacterial sepsis regarding kinetics of several biomarkers. We found that interleukin-6 is able to predict survival and might be able to evaluate appropriateness of anti-microbial therapy.Entities:
Keywords: C reactive protein; Interleukin-6; bacterial sepsis; monitoring; procalcitonin
Year: 2016 PMID: 27103972 PMCID: PMC4815941 DOI: 10.4081/idr.2016.6213
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Dis Rep ISSN: 2036-7430