Items for "critical illness"
Abnormalities in thyroid hormone metabolism are common in critically ill patients...
Keywords: critical illness, erythrocyte zinc, hypothyroidism, non-thyroidal illness, tissue markers
09/2005 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Aim: To determine the value of cord blood cardiac troponin I levels (cTnI) as an early prognostic factor in critically ill newborns, and to compare cord cTnI levels with the prognostic value of the score for neonatal acute physiology (SNAP).
Methods: Cord arterial samples were collected routinely for blood gas analysis, and cord venous samples for cTnI and cardiac-specific creatine kinase assay...
Keywords: Cardiac troponin I, cord blood, critical illness, mortality, Newborn
01/2005 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Background: Changes in plasma uric acid concentration (UA, ?mol/L) in postoperative and critical illness have pathophysiological and clinical relevance and may alter plasma antioxidant capacity...
Keywords: antioxidant capacity, cholestasis, critical illness, plasma uric acid, renal function, surgery
09/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter