Myocardial dysfunction in severe sepsis and septic shock - no correlation with inflammatory cytokines in real-life clinical setting.

Conclusions: Unlike cardiac biomarkers, none of the measured inflammatory cytokines correlates with systolic or diastolic myocardial dysfunction in severe sepsis or septic shock.
PMID: 25591166 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Chest - January 15, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Landesberg G, Levin PD, Gilon D, Goodman S, Georgieva M, Weissman C, Jaffe AS, Sprung CL, Barak V Tags: Chest Source Type: research