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  1. Intra-abdominal hypertension is common in critically ill patients and is associated with increased severity of organ failure and mortality. The techniques most commonly used to estimate intra-abdominal pressur...

    Authors: Davide Chiumello, Federica Tallarini, Monica Chierichetti, Federico Polli, Gianluigi Li Bassi, Giuliana Motta, Serena Azzari, Cristian Carsenzola and Luciano Gattinoni
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:R82
  2. Admission plasma levels of BDNF were higher in ICU patients when compared with healthy volunteers (1,536 (962) versus 6,565 (2,838) pg/ml). The mean BDNF D2 was significantly lower in nonsurvivor patients (5,865 ...

    Authors: Cristiane Ritter, Aline S Miranda, Vinícius Renê Giombelli, Cristiane D Tomasi, Clarissa M Comim, Antonio Lucio Teixeira, João Quevedo and Felipe Dal-Pizzol
    Citation: Critical Care 2012 16:R234
  3. Critical illness is commonly complicated by hyperglycaemia caused by mediators of stress and inflammation. Severity of disease is the main risk factor for development of hyperglycaemia, but not all severely il...

    Authors: Ivan Gornik, Ana Vujaklija-Brajković, Ivana Pavlić Renar and Vladimir Gašparović
    Citation: Critical Care 2010 14:R130

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Critical Care 2010 14:444

  4. The 15th...Annual European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Meeting opened in Barcelona, Spain on September 30, 2002. This report focuses on some highlights of this congress. Preliminary data from the Sepsis Oc...

    Authors: Marc-Jacques Dubois, Colin L Verdant and Redouane Bouali
    Citation: Critical Care 2003 7:91
  5. Cystatin C is a well-validated marker of glomerular filtration rate in chronic kidney disease. Higher plasma concentrations of cystatin C are associated with worse clinical outcomes in heterogenous populations...

    Authors: Carolyn M. Hendrickson, Yuenting D. Kwong, Annika G. Belzer, Michael G. Shlipak, Michael A. Matthay and Kathleen D. Liu
    Citation: Critical Care 2020 24:416
  6. Septic shock is a medical emergency that is associated with mortality rates of 40–70%. Prompt recognition and institution of effective therapy is required for optimal outcome. When the shock state persists aft...

    Authors: Gourang P Patel and Robert A Balk
    Citation: Critical Care 2007 11:174
  7. In the previous issue of Critical Care, Mori and colleagues demonstrate that glutamine supplementation in mechanically ventilated patients as part of parenteral nutrition increases plasma glutamine concentration ...

    Authors: Heleen M Oudemans-van Straaten and Arthur RH van Zanten
    Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:143
  8. Several guidelines recommend initial empirical treatment with two antibiotics instead of one to decrease mortality in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) requiring intensive-care-unit (ICU) admission. We compar...

    Authors: Christophe Adrie, Carole Schwebel, Maïté Garrouste-Orgeas, Lucile Vignoud, Benjamin Planquette, Elie Azoulay, Hatem Kallel, Michael Darmon, Bertrand Souweine, Anh-Tuan Dinh-Xuan, Samir Jamali, Jean-Ralph Zahar and Jean-François Timsit
    Citation: Critical Care 2013 17:R265
  9. We searched Pubmed, Embase, Scopus and Cochrane databases from inception until 1st June 2021, and included all relevant publications reporting on > 5 adult patients requiring VA ECMO for septic shock. Study quali...

    Authors: Ryan Ruiyang Ling, Kollengode Ramanathan, Wynne Hsing Poon, Chuen Seng Tan, Nicolas Brechot, Daniel Brodie, Alain Combes and Graeme MacLaren
    Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:246
  10. A specific match code was applied to identify certain patients with pelvic disruptions from both PIR and TR anonymous trauma databases, admitted between 2004 and 2009. From the resulting intersection set, a retro...

    Authors: Markus Burkhardt, Ulrike Nienaber, Antonius Pizanis, Marc Maegele, Ulf Culemann, Bertil Bouillon, Sascha Flohé, Tim Pohlemann and Thomas Paffrath
    Citation: Critical Care 2012 16:R163
  11. This was a monocentric, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study that included patients with sepsis or acute respiratory distress syndrome. Patients received...

    Authors: Nicholas Heming, Robert Carlier, Helene Prigent, Ahmed Mekki, Camille Jousset, Frederic Lofaso, Xavier Ambrosi, Rania Bounab, Virginie Maxime, Arnaud Mansart, Pascal Crenn, Pierre Moine, Fabien Foltzer, Bernard Cuenoud, Tobias Konz, John Corthesy…
    Citation: Critical Care 2022 26:358
  12. Several factors, including diuretic use and sepsis, interfere with the fractional excretion of sodium...

    Authors: Michael Darmon, Francois Vincent, Jean Dellamonica, Frederique Schortgen, Frederic Gonzalez, Vincent Das, Fabrice Zeni, Laurent Brochard, Gilles Bernardin, Yves Cohen and Benoit Schlemmer
    Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:R178
  13. Septic shock is characterized by an uncontrolled inflammatory response and microcirculatory dysfunction. There is currently no specific agent for treating septic shock. Anisodamine is an agent extracted from t...

    Authors: Yuetian Yu, Cheng Zhu, Yucai Hong, Lin Chen, Zhiping Huang, Jiancang Zhou, Xin Tian, Dadong Liu, Bo Ren, Cao Zhang, Caibao Hu, Xinan Wang, Rui Yin, Yuan Gao and Zhongheng Zhang
    Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:349

    The Letter to this article has been published in Critical Care 2021 25:433

  14. Interleukin (IL)-18 is a marker of inflammasome activation, and high baseline plasma IL-18 is associated with increased mortality in patients with sepsis-induced ARDS. The aim of this analysis...

    Authors: Andrew James Boyle, Peter Ferris, Ian Bradbury, John Conlon, Manu Shankar-Hari, Angela J. Rogers, Cecilia M. O’Kane and Daniel F. McAuley
    Citation: Critical Care 2022 26:164
  15. The pathophysiology of endotoxemia-induced acute kidney injury (AKI) is characterized by an intense activation of the host immune system and renal resident cells by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and derived proinfl...

    Authors: Giuseppe Castellano, Alessandra Stasi, Angelica Intini, Margherita Gigante, Anna Maria Di Palma, Chiara Divella, Giuseppe Stefano Netti, Clelia Prattichizzo, Paola Pontrelli, Antonio Crovace, Francesco Staffieri, Enrico Fiaccadori, Nicola Brienza, Giuseppe Grandaliano, Giovanni Pertosa and Loreto Gesualdo
    Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:520
  16. Covid-19 infection was associated with twice the risk of severe maternal morbidity compared with no infection (RR 2.02, 95% CI 1.76–2.31). Risks were elevated for acute renal failure (RR 3.01, 95% CI 1.79–5.06), ...

    Authors: Nathalie Auger, U. Vivian Ukah, Shu Qin Wei, Jessica Healy-Profitós, Ernest Lo and Natalie Dayan
    Citation: Critical Care 2023 27:344
  17. Current protective lung ventilation strategies commonly involve hypercapnia. This approach has resulted in an increase in the clinical acceptability of elevated carbon dioxide tension, with hypoventilation and...

    Authors: Donall O' Croinin, Martina Ni Chonghaile, Brendan Higgins and John G Laffey
    Citation: Critical Care 2004 9:51
  18. Septic shock comprises a heterogeneous population, and individualized resuscitation strategy is of vital importance. The study aimed to identify subclasses of septic shock with non-supervised learning algorith...

    Authors: Penglin Ma, Jingtao Liu, Feng Shen, Xuelian Liao, Ming Xiu, Heling Zhao, Mingyan Zhao, Jing Xie, Peng Wang, Man Huang, Tong Li, Meili Duan, Kejian Qian, Yue Peng, Feihu Zhou, Xin Xin…
    Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:243
  19. ICU-acquired weakness (ICUAW) complicates the disease course of critically ill patients. Inflammation and acute-phase response occur directly within myocytes and contribute to ICUAW. We observed that tripartit...

    Authors: Franziska Schmidt, Melanie Kny, Xiaoxi Zhu, Tobias Wollersheim, Kathleen Persicke, Claudia Langhans, Doerte Lodka, Christian Kleber, Steffen Weber-Carstens and Jens Fielitz
    Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:545
  20. Twenty-three patients (20 women; 87%) of 59.5 ± 14.4 years of age (range, 30 to 89 years) were seen during the study period. Nine (39%) patients were diagnosed with hypothyroidism for the first time at the tim...

    Authors: Pinaki Dutta, Anil Bhansali, Shriq Rashid Masoodi, Sanjay Bhadada, Navneet Sharma and Rajesh Rajput
    Citation: Critical Care 2008 12:R1
  21. The multiple roles of iron in the body have been known for decades, particularly its involvement in iron overload diseases such as hemochromatosis. More recently, compelling evidence has emerged regarding the ...

    Authors: Coralie Grange, François Lux, Thomas Brichart, Laurent David, Aymeric Couturier, David E. Leaf, Bernard Allaouchiche and Olivier Tillement
    Citation: Critical Care 2023 27:475
  22. Diastolic dysfunction as demonstrated by tissue Doppler imaging (TDI), particularly E/e' (peak early diastolic transmitral/peak early diastolic mitral annular velocity) is common in critical illness. In septic...

    Authors: David J Sturgess, Thomas H Marwick, Chris Joyce, Carly Jenkins, Mark Jones, Paul Masci, David Stewart and Bala Venkatesh
    Citation: Critical Care 2010 14:R44
  23. We included 296 RRT-treated critically ill patients. Of 283 patients with complete data on fluid balance, 76 (26.9%) patients had fluid overload. The median (interquartile range) time from ICU admission to RRT...

    Authors: Suvi T Vaara, Anna-Maija Korhonen, Kirsi-Maija Kaukonen, Sara Nisula, Outi Inkinen, Sanna Hoppu, Jouko J Laurila, Leena Mildh, Matti Reinikainen, Vesa Lund, Ilkka Parviainen and Ville Pettilä
    Citation: Critical Care 2012 16:R197