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Table 3 Inflammatory and cerebral markers at angiography and at the intensive care unit follow-up clinic

From: Retinal arterial blood flow and retinal changes in patients with sepsis: preliminary study using fluorescein angiography

 

Patients with short arterial filling time <8.28 seconds (n = 15)

Patients with prolonged arterial filling time >8.28 seconds (n = 16)

ICU follow-up clinic

P value

S100B, μg/L

0.19 [0.097–0.45]

0.12 [0.06–0.22]

0.04 [0–0.05]

<0.001

NSE, μg/L

23.5 [13.3–39.2]

22.3 [8.8–34.2]

13.4 [0.82–17.2]

0.035

IL-6, pg/ml

101 [13.4–525.6]

39.4 [19.6–77.6]

3.7 [0.58–8.56]

<0.001

TNF-α, pg/ml

29.5 [20.2–82.5]

28.3 [19.5–49]

13.9 [9.3–20.8]

0.002

  1. Abbreviations: ICU Intensive care unit, IL-6 Interleukin 6, NSE Neuron-specific enolase, S100B Calcium-binding protein B, TNF-α Tumor necrosis factor-α