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Feng J, Liu L, Liu J, Wang J. Immunological alterations in the endothelial barrier: a new predictive and therapeutic paradigm for sepsis. Expert Rev Clin Immunol 2024:1-13. [PMID: 38850066 DOI: 10.1080/1744666x.2024.2366301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2024] [Accepted: 06/05/2024] [Indexed: 06/09/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Despite the fact incidence and mortality vary widely among regions, sepsis remains a major cause of morbidity and cost worldwide. The importance of the endothelial barrier in sepsis and infectious diseases is increasingly recognized; however, the underlying pathophysiology of the endothelial barrier in sepsis remains poorly understood. AREAS COVERED Here we review the advances in basic and clinical research for relevant papers in PubMed database. We attempt to provide an updated overview of immunological alterations in endothelial dysfunction, discussing the central role of endothelial barrier involved in sepsis to provide new predictive and therapeutic paradigm for sepsis. EXPERT OPINION Given its physiological and immunological functions in infectious diseases, the endothelial barrier has been dramatically altered in sepsis, suggesting that endothelial dysfunction may play a critical role in the pathogenesis of sepsis. Although many reliable biomarkers have been investigated to monitor endothelial activation and injury in an attempt to find diagnostic and therapeutic tools, there are no specific therapies to treat sepsis due to its complex pathophysiology. Since sepsis is initiated by both hyperinflammation and immunoparalysis occurring simultaneously, a 'one-treatment-fits-all' strategy for sepsis-induced immune injury and immunoparalysis is bound to fail, and an individualized 'precision medicine' approach is required.
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- Jun Feng
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Tongji Hospital,Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Tongji Hospital,Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Tongji Hospital,Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Bem RA, Lemson J. Evaluating fluid overload in critically ill children. Curr Opin Pediatr 2024; 36:266-273. [PMID: 38655808 DOI: 10.1097/mop.0000000000001347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW To review the evaluation and management of fluid overload in critically ill children. RECENT FINDINGS Emerging evidence associates fluid overload, i.e. having a positive cumulative fluid balance, with adverse outcome in critically ill children. This is most likely the result of impaired organ function due to increased extravascular water content. The combination of a number of parameters, including physical, laboratory and radiographic markers, may aid the clinician in monitoring and quantifying fluid status, but all have important limitations, in particular to discriminate between intra- and extravascular water volume. Current guidelines advocate a restrictive fluid management, initiated early during the disease course, but are hampered by the lack of high quality evidence. SUMMARY Recent advances in early evaluation of fluid status and (tailored) restrictive fluid management in critically ill children may decrease complications of fluid overload, potentially improving outcome. Further clinical trials are necessary to provide the clinician with solid recommendations.
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- Reinout A Bem
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam Academic Medical Centers, location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
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- Department of Intensive Care, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Atreya MR, Piraino G, Cvijanovich NZ, Fitzgerald JC, Weiss SL, Bigham MT, Jain PN, Schwarz AJ, Lutfi R, Nowak J, Thomas NJ, Baines T, Haileselassie B, Zingarelli B. SERUM HUMANIN IN PEDIATRIC SEPTIC SHOCK-ASSOCIATED MULTIPLE-ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SYNDROME. Shock 2024; 61:83-88. [PMID: 37917869 PMCID: PMC10842252 DOI: 10.1097/shk.0000000000002266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2023]
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ABSTRACT Background: Multiple-organ dysfunction syndrome disproportionately contributes to pediatric sepsis morbidity. Humanin (HN) is a small peptide encoded by mitochondrial DNA and thought to exert cytoprotective effects in endothelial cells and platelets. We sought to test the association between serum HN (sHN) concentrations and multiple-organ dysfunction syndrome in a prospectively enrolled cohort of pediatric septic shock. Methods: Human MT-RNR2 ELISA was used to determine sHN concentrations on days 1 and 3. The primary outcome was thrombocytopenia-associated multiorgan failure (TAMOF). Secondary outcomes included individual organ dysfunctions on day 7. Associations across pediatric sepsis biomarker (PERSEVERE)-based mortality risk strata and correlation with platelet and markers of endothelial activation were tested. Results: One hundred forty subjects were included in this cohort, of whom 39 had TAMOF. The concentration of sHN was higher on day 1 relative to day 3 and among those with TAMOF phenotype in comparison to those without. However, the association between sHN and TAMOF phenotype was not significant after adjusting for age and illness severity in multivariate models. In secondary analyses, sHN was associated with presence of day 7 sepsis-associated acute kidney injury ( P = 0.049). Furthermore, sHN was higher among those with high PERSEVERE-mortality risk strata and correlated with platelet counts and several markers of endothelial activation. Conclusion: Future investigation is necessary to validate the association between sHN and sepsis-associated acute kidney injury among children with septic shock. Furthermore, mechanistic studies that elucidate the role of HN may lead to therapies that promote organ recovery through restoration of mitochondrial homeostasis among those critically ill.
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, 45229, OH, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA 92868, USA
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- Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA
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- Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
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- University of Florida Health Shands Children's Hospital, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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Atreya MR, Cvijanovich NZ, Fitzgerald JC, Weiss SL, Bigham MT, Jain PN, Abulebda K, Lutfi R, Nowak J, Thomas NJ, Baines T, Quasney M, Haileselassie B, Sahay R, Zhang B, Alder MN, Stanski NL, Goldstein SL. Revisiting Post-ICU Admission Fluid Balance Across Pediatric Sepsis Mortality Risk Strata: A Secondary Analysis of a Prospective Observational Cohort Study. Crit Care Explor 2024; 6:e1027. [PMID: 38234587 PMCID: PMC10793970 DOI: 10.1097/cce.0000000000001027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVES Post-ICU admission cumulative positive fluid balance (PFB) is associated with increased mortality among critically ill patients. We sought to test whether this risk varied across biomarker-based risk strata upon adjusting for illness severity, presence of severe acute kidney injury (acute kidney injury), and use of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) in pediatric septic shock. DESIGN Ongoing multicenter prospective observational cohort. SETTING Thirteen PICUs in the United States (2003-2023). PATIENTS Six hundred and eighty-one children with septic shock. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Cumulative percent PFB between days 1 and 7 (days 1-7 %PFB) was determined. Primary outcome of interest was complicated course defined as death or persistence of greater than or equal to two organ dysfunctions by day 7. Pediatric Sepsis Biomarker Risk Model (PERSEVERE)-II biomarkers were used to assign mortality probability and categorize patients into high mortality (n = 91), intermediate mortality (n = 134), and low mortality (n = 456) risk strata. Cox proportional hazard regression models with adjustment for PERSEVERE-II mortality probability, presence of sepsis-associated acute kidney injury on day 3, and use of CRRT, demonstrated that time-dependent variable days 1-7%PFB was independently associated with an increased hazard of complicated course. Risk-stratified analyses revealed that each 10% increase in days 1-7 %PFB was associated with increased hazard of complicated course only among patients with high mortality risk strata (adjusted hazard ratio 1.24 (95% CI, 1.08-1.43), p = 0.003). However, this association was not causally mediated by PERSEVERE-II biomarkers. CONCLUSIONS Our data demonstrate the influence of cumulative %PFB on the risk of complicated course in pediatric septic shock. Contrary to our previous report, this risk was largely driven by patients categorized as having a high mortality risk based on PERSEVERE-II biomarkers. Incorporation of such prognostic enrichment tools in randomized trials of restrictive fluid management or early initiation of de-escalation strategies may inform targeted application of such interventions among at-risk patients.
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- Mihir R Atreya
- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nemours Children's Hospital, Wilmington, DE
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- Department of Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Department of Pediatrics, Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Pediatrics, Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Pediatrics, Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital, Hershey, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida Health Shands Children's Hospital, Gainesville, FL
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- Department of Pediatrics, CS Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
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- Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
- Division of Nephrology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH
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