%0 Journal Article
%T Interleukin-6 kinetics can be useful for early treatment monitoring of severe bacterial sepsis and septic shock
%A Anastasios Athanasiadis
%A Giulio Cantara
%A Thomas Klag
%A Udo Sechtem
%J -
%D 2016
%R https://doi.org/10.4081/idr.2016.6213
%X Early appropriate anti-microbial therapy is necessary to improve outcomes of septic patients. We describe 20 case histories of patients with severe bacterial sepsis regarding kinetics of several biomarkers. We found that interleukin-6 is able to predict survival and might be able to evaluate appropriateness of anti-microbial therapy
%K Interleukin-6
%K C reactive protein
%K procalcitonin
%K bacterial sepsis
%K monitoring
%U https://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/idr/article/view/6213