From: Upregulation of the pro-apoptotic genes BID and FAS in septic shock patients
Parameter | Patients (n= 13) |
---|---|
Age at admission (years) | 60 (4) |
Gender | |
Male | 7 |
MacCabe score | |
0 | 10 |
1 | 3 |
Main diagnosis category | |
Medical | 8 |
Surgical | 5 |
SAPS II score at diagnosis of shock | 51 (3) |
Adjunctive corticosteroid treatment | 7 |
Delay shock - ICU (days) | ≤1 |
Infection diagnosis | |
Radiologically diagnosed | 1 |
Surgically diagnosed | 0 |
Microbiologically documented | 11 |
Bacilli Gram-negative | 5 |
Bacilli Gram-positive | 6 |
Fungi | 1 |
Others | 1 |
Type of infection | |
Community-acquired | 10 |
Hospital-acquired | 3 |
ICU-acquired | 0 |
Site of infection | |
Pulmonary | 6 |
Abdominal | 4 |
Others | 3 |
Mortality | |
Survivors | 10 |