Sepsis: pathophysiology and clinical management

JE Gotts, MA Matthay - Bmj, 2016 - bmj.com
Sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock represent increasingly severe systemic
inflammatory responses to infection. Sepsis is common in the aging population, and it …

Extracellular vesicles in renal disease

D Karpman, A Ståhl, I Arvidsson - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2017 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles, such as exosomes and microvesicles, are host cell-derived packages
of information that allow cell–cell communication and enable cells to rid themselves of …

Biomarkers of sepsis

JD Faix - Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Sepsis is an unusual systemic reaction to what is sometimes an otherwise ordinary infection,
and it probably represents a pattern of response by the immune system to injury. A hyper …

Microvesicles and exosomes: new players in metabolic and cardiovascular disease

C Lawson, JM Vicencio, DM Yellon… - Journal of …, 2016 - joe.bioscientifica.com
The past decade has witnessed an exponential increase in the number of publications
referring to extracellular vesicles (EVs). For many years considered to be extracellular …

Host innate immune responses to sepsis

WJ Wiersinga, SJ Leopold, DR Cranendonk… - Virulence, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The immune response to sepsis can be seen as a pattern recognition receptor-mediated
dysregulation of the immune system following pathogen invasion in which a careful balance …

Endothelial barrier dysfunction in septic shock

SM Opal, T Van Der Poll - Journal of internal medicine, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The endothelium provides an essential and selective membrane barrier that regulates the
movement of water, solutes, gases, macromolecules and the cellular elements of the blood …

How to manage coagulopathies in critically ill patients

J Helms, T Iba, JM Connors, S Gando, M Levi… - Intensive care …, 2023 - Springer
Coagulopathy is a severe and frequent complication in critically ill patients, for which the
pathogenesis and presentation may be variable depending on the underlying disease …

Inflammation and coagulation

M Levi - … : From Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms to the Clinic, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In the majority of patients with systemic inflammatory conditions, some degree of activation
of coagulation is present. Increasing evidence points to an extensive cross‐talk between …

Sepsis: a roadmap for future research

J Cohen, JL Vincent, NKJ Adhikari… - The Lancet infectious …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Sepsis is a common and lethal syndrome: although outcomes have improved, mortality
remains high. No specific anti-sepsis treatments exist; as such, management of patients …

Recent advances in the pathogenetic mechanisms of sepsis-associated acute kidney injury

F Fani, G Regolisti, M Delsante, V Cantaluppi… - Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Sepsis is a serious medical condition that can lead to multi-organ failure and shock, and it is
associated with increased mortality. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent complication of …