INTERLEUKIN-6 AND INTERLEUKIN-8 CONCENTRATIONS AS PREDICTORS OF OUTCOME IN VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE PATIENTS BEFORE HEART-TRANSPLANTATION

Authors
HUMMEL M CZERLINSKI S FRIEDEL N LIEBENTHAL C HASPER D VONBAEHR R HETZER R VOLK HD
Citation
M. Hummel et al., INTERLEUKIN-6 AND INTERLEUKIN-8 CONCENTRATIONS AS PREDICTORS OF OUTCOME IN VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE PATIENTS BEFORE HEART-TRANSPLANTATION, Critical care medicine, 22(3), 1994, pp. 448-454
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
Critical care medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
00903493
Volume
22
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
448 - 454
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-3493(1994)22:3<448:IAICAP>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Objective: To determine whether the serum concentrations of some circu lating cytokines as highly sensitive markers of inflammation) are of v alue in predicting the outcome of patients with cardiogenic shock and end-stage heart disease, who undergo ventricular assist device implant ation until heart transplantation. Design: Cohort study. Setting: Univ ersity teaching hospitals. Patients: Twenty patients with cardiogenic shock or end-stage heart disease were consecutively selected for this study, if assist device implantation was performed as a bridge to hear t transplantation.