title: Splanchnic perfusion in intensive care patients.
abstract: Splanchnic vasoregulation is poorly understood. The tissue perfusion in the splanchnic region may be compromised in critically ill patients both because of the underlying disease and therapeutic interventions. Inadequate perfusion, dysoxia, and ischemia-reperfusion may trigger and modify an inflammatory response which may itself cause deterioration of the splanchnic perfusion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bern (Inelspital), Switzerland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Takala
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Jakob
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D016638:Critical Illness; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D013152:Splanchnic Circulation / Q000502:physiology*