Induction and deduction in sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy: five typical categories

• Published in: Chinese medical journal Vol. 133; no. 18; pp. 2205 - 2211
• Main Authors: Wang, Jie, Wang, Xiao-Ting, Liu, Da-Wei, Zhang, Hong-Min, Su, Long-Xiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: China Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 20.09.2020; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies; Department of Critical Care Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China; Wolters Kluwer
• Subjects: Adolescent; Aged; Cardiac function; Cardiomyopathies - etiology; Cardiomyopathy; Catecholamines; Critical care; Disease; Echocardiography; Female; Gene expression; Heart; Humans; Morbidity; Mortality; Review; Sepsis; Sepsis - complications; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left; Ventricular Dysfunction, Right; United States > US; Sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy; Critical care echocardiography; Right; Sepsis; Left ventricular systolic dysfunction; Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction; Right ventricular dysfunction

Sepsis is defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. The heart is one of the most important oxygen delivery organs, and dysfunction significantly increases the mortality of the body. Hence, the heart has been studied in sepsis for over half a c...