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Title: Galectin-3 in critically ill patients with sepsis and/or trauma: A good predictor of outcome or not?
Authors: Jevdjic, Jasna
Surbatović, Maja
Milosavljević, Snežana
Rondović Goran
Stanojevic, Ivan
Erić, Stevan
Zornic, Nenad
Issue Date: 2021
Abstract: Severe sepsis and/or trauma complicated with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome are leading causes of death in critically ill patients. The aim of this prospective, observa-tional, single centre study was to assess the prognostic value of galectin-3 regarding outcome in critically ill patients with severe trauma and/or severe sepsis. The outcome measure was hospital mortality. In total, 75 critically ill patients who were admitted to the intensive care unit of the tertiary university hospital were enrolled in a prospective observational study. Blood samples were collected upon fulfilling Sepsis-3 criteria and for a trau-matized Injury Severity Score > 25 points. Levels of galectin-3 were significantly higher in nonsur-vivors on the day of enrolment – Day 1 (p<0.05). On Day 1, the area under the curve (AUC) for the galectin-3 for lethal outcome was 0.602. At a cut-off level of 262.82 ng/mL, the sensitivity was 53%, and the specificity was 69.7%, which was objectively determined by a Youden index of 0.20. The discriminative power of galectin-3 in predicting outcome was statistically significant. Galectin-3 on Day 1 is a fairly good predictor of lethal outcome.
URI: https://scidar.kg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/14047
Type: article
DOI: 10.2478/sjecr-2018-0037
ISSN: 1820-8665
SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-85116430972
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