Abstract:
OBJECTIVES:Sepsis-associated changes of the arachidonic acid metabolism and the utility of arachidonic acid metabolites for the diagnosis of sepsis have been poorly investigated so far. Therefore, the primary objective of our study was to screen for differentially regulated arachidonic acid metabolites in septic patients using a lipopolysaccharide whole-blood model and to investigate their diagnostic potential. DESIGN:Prospective, observational, single-center, clinical study. SETTING:Intensive care unit at University Hospital Leipzig. PATIENTS:Thirty-five patients (first cohort 25 patients, second cohort 10 patients) meeting the criteria for severe sepsis or septic shock were enrolled. Eighteen healthy volunteers (first cohort 15 subjects, second cohort 3 subjects) were enrolled as controls. INTERVENTIONS:None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:Arachidonic acid and its metabolites were investigated in supernatants of nonactivated (baseline) and lipopolysaccharide-activated heparinized whole blood of healthy subjects (n=15) and septic patients (n=25) by solid phase extraction and subsequent liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Arachidonic acid, arachidonic acid analogues, and the cyclooxygenase-associated metabolites prostaglandin E2, 11-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid, and thromboxane B2 were identified as differentiating metabolites between septic patients and healthy subjects. Some of these compounds, including arachidonic acid, its analogues, and the cyclooxygenase metabolites prostaglandin E2 and thromboxane B2 differed at baseline. The inducibility of arachidonic acid and the cyclooxygenase metabolites 11-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic and prostaglandin E2 were reduced by 80% to 90% in septic patients. The degree of the inducibility was associated with severity of sepsis and clinical outcome. A reduced inducibility of COX-2 but preserved inducibility of mPGES-1 on gene expression level were confirmed in an independent cohort of septic patients (n=10) by quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction compared to healthy controls (n=3). CONCLUSIONS:Arachidonic acid metabolism is markedly affected in patients with sepsis. Our data suggest that the analysis of arachidonic acid metabolites in an in vitro whole blood activation model may be a promising approach for risk estimation in septic patients that has to be further evaluated in subsequent large-scale clinical studies.
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Bruegel M,Ludwig U,Kleinhempel A,Petros S,Kortz L,Ceglarek U,Holdt LM,Thiery J,Fiedler GMdoi
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
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pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
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pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
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doi:10.1097/00003246-200004000-00042
更新日期:2000-04-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000065761.51367.2D
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更新日期:2005-03-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e31825b88ba
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doi:10.1097/00003246-199611000-00019
更新日期:1996-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
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更新日期:2006-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2012-03-01 00:00:00
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