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Plasma cytokine levels predict response to corticosteroids in septic shock

Bentzer, Peter LU ; Fjell, Chris ; Walley, Keith R. ; Boyd, John and Russell, James A. (2016) In Intensive Care Medicine 42(12). p.1970-1979
Abstract

Purpose: To investigate if plasma cytokine concentrations predict a beneficial response to corticosteroid treatment in septic shock patients. Methods: A cohort of septic shock patients in whom a panel of 39 cytokines had been measured at baseline (n = 363) was included. Patients who received corticosteroids were propensity score matched to non-corticosteroid-treated patients. An optimal threshold to identify responders to corticosteroid treatment for each cytokine was defined as the concentration above which the odds ratio for 28-day survival between corticosteroid- and non-corticosteroid-treated patients was highest. Results: Propensity score matching partitioned 165 patients into 61 sets; each set contained matched corticosteroid- and... (More)

Purpose: To investigate if plasma cytokine concentrations predict a beneficial response to corticosteroid treatment in septic shock patients. Methods: A cohort of septic shock patients in whom a panel of 39 cytokines had been measured at baseline (n = 363) was included. Patients who received corticosteroids were propensity score matched to non-corticosteroid-treated patients. An optimal threshold to identify responders to corticosteroid treatment for each cytokine was defined as the concentration above which the odds ratio for 28-day survival between corticosteroid- and non-corticosteroid-treated patients was highest. Results: Propensity score matching partitioned 165 patients into 61 sets; each set contained matched corticosteroid- and non-corticosteroid-treated patients. For 13 plasma cytokines threshold concentrations were found where the odds ratio for survival between corticosteroid- and non-corticosteroid-treated patients was significant (P <0.05). CD40 ligand was associated with the highest odds ratio and identified 21 % of the patients in the propensity score matched cohort as responders to corticosteroid treatment. Combinations of triplets of cytokines with a significant odds ratio, using the thresholds identified above, were tested to find a higher proportion of responders. IL3, IL6, and CCL4 identified 50 % of the patients in the propensity score matched cohort as responders to corticosteroid treatment. The odds ratio for 28-day survival was 19 (95 % CI 3.5–140, P = 0.02) with a concentration above threshold for a least one of these cytokines. Conclusion: Plasma concentration of selected cytokines is a potential predictive biomarker to identify septic shock patients that may benefit from treatment with corticosteroids.

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Corticosteroids, Cytokines, Predictive biomarker, Propensity score matching, Septic shock
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Intensive Care Medicine
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42
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12
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10 pages
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Springer
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  • scopus:84963686144
  • pmid:27071387
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0342-4642
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10.1007/s00134-016-4338-z
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English
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  author       = {{Bentzer, Peter and Fjell, Chris and Walley, Keith R. and Boyd, John and Russell, James A.}},
  issn         = {{0342-4642}},
  keywords     = {{Corticosteroids; Cytokines; Predictive biomarker; Propensity score matching; Septic shock}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{12}},
  pages        = {{1970--1979}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  series       = {{Intensive Care Medicine}},
  title        = {{Plasma cytokine levels predict response to corticosteroids in septic shock}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4338-z}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/s00134-016-4338-z}},
  volume       = {{42}},
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