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Filter by:Assess the efficacy of melatonin as an adjuvant in the treatment of free radical disease in septic preterms receiving melatonin compared to those on conventional treatment through measuring the level of Malondialdehyde as a marker of oxidative stress and by comparing other clinical and laboratory parameters of sepsis in both groups.
There is an observational, clinical study. We recruit sepsis patients to investigate what drives peripheral lymphocyte loss in sepsis.
Progranulin blood concentrations in patients with sepsis will be analysed in relation to disease status in order to validate progranulin as a biomarker for sepsis. Patients undergoing cardiac surgery will serve as controls.
The optimum duration of intravenous antibiotic therapy for culture-proven neonatal bacterial sepsis is not known. Current practices, ranging from 7 days to 14 days of antibiotics, are not evidence-based. This is a randomized, active -controlled, multi-centric, non-inferiority trial to compare the efficacy of a 7-day course of intravenous antibiotics versus a 14-day course among neonates weighing > 1000 g at birth with culture-proven bacterial sepsis that is uncomplicated by meningitis, bone or joint infections deep-seated abscesses. The primary outcome measure is a definite or probable relapse within 21 days after stoppage of antibiotics.
Meta-and ortho-Tyrosine are known markers of oxidative stress, while the physiological isomer, para-Tyrosine is suggested the antagonize the effects of meta- and ortho-Tyrosine. The changes in the serum levels of meta- and ortho-Tyrosine have been found to be paralel to that of the common sepsis markers. The hypothesis of the study is, that supplementation of para-Tyrosine (p-Tyr) in the early phase of sepsis may diminish some specific inflammatory procedures and thus may have a favourable impact on the disease progress, and consequently on the mortality.
The high chloride content of 0.9%sodium chloride (0.9%NaCl) leads to adverse pathophysiological effects in both animals and healthy human volunteers. Small randomized trials confirm that the hyperchloremic acidosis induced by 0.9%NaCl also occurs in patients. A strong signal is emerging from recent large propensity-matched and cohort studies for the adverse effects that 0.9% NaCl has on the clinical outcome in surgical and critically ill patients when compared with balanced crystalloids. Major complications are the increased incidences of acute kidney injury and the need for renal replacement therapy, and that pathological hyperchloremia may increase postoperative mortality. Fluid resuscitation with 0.9% NaCl in animals with sepsis resulted in hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis, worsened AKI, and increased mortality when compared with resuscitation with a balanced crystalloid solution. Furthermore, hyperchloremic acidosis also resulted in increased concentrations of circulating inflammatory mediators in an experimental model of severe sepsis in rats, with a dose-dependent increase in circulating interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-a, and interleukin-10 concentrations with increasing acidosis. Thus, in this study, investigators compared the effects of a balanced crystalloid solution with 0.9% NaCl on the renal function in severe sepsis/septic shock patients. Investigators hypothesized that balanced crystalloid solution resuscitation would decrease AKI incidence and severity and would improve immunomodulatory effect when compared with 0.9% NaCl resuscitation.
Introduction and objectives: Lipid emulsions play an important role in parenteral nutrition in preterm infants. We aim to evaluate the effect of two different intravenous lipid emulsions on the outcomes of neonatal sepsis in preterm infants. Methods: A randomized controlled trial is conducted in the Neonatal Care Unit of Mansoura University Children's Hospital, Egypt. Forty preterm infants with clinically suspected sepsis are enrolled and assigned randomly into one of two groups, one receive MOFS lipid emulsion (MOFS group) and the other receive pure soyabean oil-based emulsion (S group). Clinical and epidemiological data are collected. Assessment is done on 1st day and 7th day post randomization including growth parameters, complete blood count, C-reactive protein, random blood glucose, serum creatinine, serum triglyceride, soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (sICAM-1) and leukocyte integrin β2. Between-groups and within-group differences will be analyzed statistically.
In this prospective clinical study, the investigators compare the outcome and clinical course of consecutive septic participants treated with intravenous vitamin C, hydrocortisone, and thiamine (treatment group) with a control group treated in the investigators' ICU. The primary outcome is hospital survival. A propensity score is generated to adjust the primary outcome.There is 70 participants in each group.
Serum lactate level is depended on the balance between lactate production and clearance. It is seen as a sensitive indicator reflecting not only the low systemic perfusion but microcirculatory dysfunction which cause global or regional tissue hypoxia (as a result of impaired mitochondrial oxidation). 2016 Surviving Sepsis Campaign guideline stated "We suggest guiding resuscitation to normalize lactate in patients with elevated lactate levels as a marker of tissue hypoperfusion", with weak recommendation and low quality of evidence. Several trials which evaluated the resuscitation strategy included lactate clearance as a target while based on 2.0 diagnostic criteria for sepsis, finally showed conflicting results. The aim of this study is to explore the feasibility of lactate clearance guide resuscitation in sepsis that defined by The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic shock through multi-center, central-randomization clinical trial.
Sepsis is the most common cause of death in the clinical critically ill patients. We have successfully screened the sepsis biomarkers by clinical proteomics approach and found that Vimentin (VIM) played an important role in the occurrence and development of sepsis. However, the exact mechanism is remaining unclear. In this study, the relationship between the changes of peripheral circulation VIM expression and different stages of sepsis development will be further verified in lager clinical trials, as well as the relationship between VIM expression and apoptosis of immune cells (e.g lymphocytes) will also be clarified. This may indicate that the role of VIM in the cell-mediated immunity apoptosis and inflammation-related pathways. Through the implementation of this study, we can clarify the clinical value of VIM and the mechanism of VIM-mediated immune cell apoptosis during the sepsis development from the molecular level, and determine whether the VIM as a new target for sepsis diagnosis and treatment.