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Endotoxin Activity Assay for the Detection of Whole Blood Endotoxemia in Critically Ill Patients
Published on: June 24, 2019
[Evolutionary comparison of laboratory cardiac and infectious parameters during septic shock: about an original case]
C Périer1, J Morel, R Granouillet
1Laboratoire de biochimie, Hôpital Nord, CHU-hôpitaux de Saint Etienne. christian.perier@chu-st-etienne.fr
Abstract:
A massive release of troponin Ic and CKMB was described in a patient during septic shock. According to experimental animal models previously described, this release of biological markers by myocardial tissue could be due to an inflammatory process of myocardial tissue during septic shock without myocardial infarction in non cardiac critically ill patients.
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