Serial cytokine levels in patients with severe sepsis

• Published in: Inflammation research Vol. 58; no. 7; pp. 385 - 393
• Main Authors: Wu, Huang-Pin, Chen, Chian-Kuang, Chung, Kong, Tseng, Jo-Chi, Hua, Chung-Ching, Liu, Yu-Chih, Chuang, Duen-Yau, Yang, Chung-Han
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel 01.07.2009; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aged; Allergology; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Cytokines - blood; Dermatology; Female; Humans; Immunology; Male; Neurology; Original Research Paper; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Rheumatology; Sepsis - blood; Sepsis - mortality; Human; Sepsis; Interleukin-10; Cytokine; Interleukin-6; Transforming growth factor-beta1

Objective and design The serial or dynamic changes of cytokine levels in severely septic patients, between shock and no shock, survivors and non-survivors are still unclear. Methods Seventy-six patients with severe sepsis were enrolled to our study. Plasma levels of interferon-γ, interleukin (IL)-6,...