Cytokine responses,microbial aetiology and short‐term outcome in community‐acquired pneumonia |
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| Authors: | William W. Siljan Jan C. Holter Ståle H. Nymo Einar Husebye Thor Ueland Pål Aukrust Tom E. Mollnes Lars Heggelund |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Internal Medicine, Drammen Hospital, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Drammen, Norway;2. Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway;3. Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;4. K.G. Jebsen Inflammatory Research Center, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;5. Section 6. of Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway;7. Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;8. Research Laboratory, Nordland Hospital, Bod?, Norway;9. Faculty of Health Sciences, K.G. Jebsen TREC, University of Troms?, Troms?, Norway;10. Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway |
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| Abstract: | Background The inflammatory response to community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) is orchestrated through activation of cytokine networks and the complement system. We examined the association of multiple cytokines and the terminal complement complex (TCC) with microbial aetiology, disease severity and short‐term outcome. Materials and methods Plasma levels of 27 cytokines and TCC were analysed in blood samples obtained at hospital admission, clinical stabilization and 6‐week follow‐up from 247 hospitalized adults with CAP. Fourteen mediators were included in final analyses. Adverse short‐term outcome was defined as intensive care unit (ICU) admission and 30‐day mortality. Results Cytokine and TCC levels were dynamic in the clinical course of CAP, with highest levels seen at admission for most mediators. Admission levels of cytokines and TCC did not differ between groups of microbial aetiology. High admission levels of IL‐6 (odds ratio [OR] 1.47, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.18‐1.84, P = .001), IL‐8 (OR 1.79, 95% CI 1.26‐2.55, P = .001) and MIP‐1β (OR 2.28, 95% CI 1.36‐3.81, P = .002) were associated with a CURB‐65 severity score of ≥3, while IL‐6 (OR 1.37, 95% CI 1.07‐1.74, P = .011) and MIP‐1β (OR 1.86, 95% CI 1.03‐3.36, P = .040) were associated with a high risk of an adverse short‐term outcome. Conclusions In this CAP cohort, admission levels of IL‐6, IL‐8 and MIP‐1β were associated with disease severity and/or adverse short‐term outcome. Still, for most mediators, only nonsignificant variations in inflammatory responses were observed for groups of microbial aetiology, disease severity and short‐term outcome. |
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| Keywords: | aetiology complement activation cytokines mortality pneumonia |
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