Interleukin-6 Kinetics can be Useful for Early Treatment Monitoring of Severe Bacterial Sepsis and Septic Shock.
Early appropriate anti-microbial therapy is necessary to improve outcomes of septic patients. We describe 20 case histories of patients with severe bacterial sepsis regarding kinetics of several biomarkers. We found that interleukin-6 is able to predict survival and might be able to evaluate appropriateness of anti-microbial therapy.
Division of Gastroenterology.
Thomas
T
Klag
Division of Cardiology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital , Stuttgart, Germany.
Giulio
G
Cantara
Division of Cardiology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital , Stuttgart, Germany.
Udo
U
Sechtem
Division of Cardiology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital , Stuttgart, Germany.
Anastasios
A
Athanasiadis
C reactive protein; Interleukin-6; bacterial sepsis; monitoring; procalcitonin