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    Immunophenoty** patients with sepsis and underlying haematological malignancy reveals defects in monocyte and lymphocyte function

    Timothy Arthur Chandos Snow, Aimee Serisier in Intensive Care Medicine Experimental (2024)

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    Biological sex is associated with heterogeneous responses to IL-6 receptor inhibitor treatment in COVID-19—A retrospective cohort study

    COVID-19 is associated with higher inflammatory markers, illness severity and mortality in males compared to females. Differences in immune responses to COVID-19 may underpin sex- specific outcome differences....

    Dan F. Stein, Conor Foley, Matt Byott, Eleni Nastouli, Gareth Ambler in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    Creating complex protocells and prototissues using simple DNA building blocks

    Building synthetic protocells and prototissues hinges on the formation of biomimetic skeletal frameworks. Recreating the complexity of cytoskeletal and exoskeletal fibers, with their widely varying dimensions,...

    Nishkantha Arulkumaran, Mervyn Singer, Stefan Howorka in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Acute Kidney Injury

    Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common clinical syndrome, with an incidence of 20% among patients admitted to hospital. It is frequently associated with other co-morbidities and advancing age. AKI is an indepen...

    Indre K. Semogas, Jill Vanmassenhove in Management of Kidney Diseases (2023)

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    Clarithromycin as an immunomodulator in sepsis: still a (IN)CLASS act

    Timothy Arthur Chandos Snow, Antonio Cesar, Mervyn Singer in Critical Care (2022)

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    Correction to: Palliative care interventions in intensive care unit patients

    Victoria Metaxa, Despina Anagnostou, Savvas Vlachos in Intensive Care Medicine (2022)

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    Palliative care interventions in intensive care unit patients

    The integration of palliative care into intensive care units (ICUs) is advocated to mitigate physical and psychological burdens for patients and their families, and to improve end-of-life care. The most effica...

    Victoria Metaxa, Despina Anagnostou, Savvas Vlachos in Intensive Care Medicine (2021)

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    “L'histoire se répète”, one size does not fit all. Author’s reply

    Timothy Arthur Chandos Snow, Naveed Saleem, Mervyn Singer in Intensive Care Medicine (2021)

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    Tocilizumab in COVID-19: a meta-analysis, trial sequential analysis, and meta-regression of randomized-controlled trials

    Interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels discriminate between patients with mild and severe COVID-19, making IL-6 inhibition an attractive therapeutic strategy. We conducted a systematic review, meta-analysis, trial sequen...

    Timothy Arthur Chandos Snow, Naveed Saleem, Gareth Ambler in Intensive Care Medicine (2021)

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    Steroids in ARDS: more light is being shed

    Nishkantha Arulkumaran, Timothy Arthur Chandos Snow in Intensive Care Medicine (2020)

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    Antimicrobial-associated harm in critical care: a narrative review

    The belief that, for the individual patient, the benefit of prompt and continued use of antimicrobials outweighs any potential harm is a significant barrier to improved stewardship of these vital agents. Antim...

    Nishkantha Arulkumaran, Matthew Routledge, Sanmarié Schlebusch in Intensive Care Medicine (2020)

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    Palliative care interventions in intensive care unit patients – a systematic review protocol

    Even though data suggest that palliative care (PC) improves patient quality of life, caregiver burden, cost, and intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay, integration of PC in the ICU is far from being univers...

    Victoria Metaxa, Despina Anagnostou, Savvas Vlachos in Systematic Reviews (2019)

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    Is the inflammasome a potential therapeutic target in renal disease?

    The inflammasome is a large, multiprotein complex that drives proinflammatory cytokine production in response to infection and tissue injury. Pattern recognition receptors that are either membrane bound or cyt...

    Clare M Turner, Nishkantha Arulkumaran, Mervyn Singer, Robert J Unwin in BMC Nephrology (2014)

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    Clinical review: Goal-directed therapy-what is the evidence in surgical patients? The effect on different risk groups

    Patients with limited cardiac reserve are less likely to survive and develop more complications following major surgery. By augmenting oxygen delivery index (DO2I) with a combination of intravenous fluids and ino...

    Maurizio Cecconi, Carlos Corredor, Nishkantha Arulkumaran, Gihan Abuella in Critical Care (2013)

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    Long- term outcome of paediatric patients with ANCA vasculitis

    Primary systemic vasculitis presenting in childhood is an uncommon but serious condition. As these patients transfer to adult clinics for continuing care, defining long term outcomes with emphasis on disease a...

    Nishkantha Arulkumaran, Susan Jawad, Stuart W Smith in Pediatric Rheumatology (2011)

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    Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients admitted to intensive care units

    Hutchison and colleagues report a 10-year experience of dialysis patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) in the UK excluding Scotland. Their study is the largest published so far and raises issues of ...

    Nishkantha Arulkumaran, John B Eastwood, Debasish Banerjee in Critical Care (2007)