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Antimicrobial therapeutic determinants of outcomes from septic shock among patients with cirrhosis†‡

  1. Yaseen M. Arabi1,4,§,*,
  2. Saqib I. Dara1,
  3. Ziad Memish5,6,
  4. Abdulmajeed Al Abdulkareem2,
  5. Hani M. Tamim3,
  6. Nehad Al-Shirawi1,
  7. Joseph E. Parrillo7,
  8. Peter Dodek8,
  9. Stephen Lapinsky9,
  10. Daniel Feinstein10,
  11. Gordon Wood11,
  12. Sandra Dial12,
  13. Sergio Zanotti13,
  14. Anand Kumar14,15,
  15. for the Cooperative Antimicrobial Therapy of Septic Shock (CATSS) Database Research Group1

Article first published online: 4 DEC 2012

DOI: 10.1002/hep.25931

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Hepatology

Hepatology

Volume 56, Issue 6, pages 2305–2315, December 2012

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Arabi, Y. M., Dara, S. I., Memish, Z., Al Abdulkareem, A., Tamim, H. M., Al-Shirawi, N., Parrillo, J. E., Dodek, P., Lapinsky, S., Feinstein, D., Wood, G., Dial, S., Zanotti, S., Kumar, A. and for the Cooperative Antimicrobial Therapy of Septic Shock (CATSS) Database Research Group (2012), Antimicrobial therapeutic determinants of outcomes from septic shock among patients with cirrhosis. Hepatology, 56: 2305–2315. doi: 10.1002/hep.25931

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  1. 1

    Intensive Care Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  2. 2

    Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  3. 3

    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  4. 4

    Department of Respiratory Services, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  5. 5

    Department of Infectious Diseases, Preventive Medicine Directorate, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  6. 6

    College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  7. 7

    Department of Medicine, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ

  8. 8

    St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

  9. 9

    Section of Critical Care Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada

  10. 10

    Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Greensboro, NC

  11. 11

    Royal Jubilee Hospital/Victoria General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Victoria, BC, Canada

  12. 12

    Section of Pulmonary Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

  13. 13

    Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ

  14. 14

    Department of Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology/Therapeutics, Section of Critical Care Medicine and Section of Infectious Diseases, Health Sciences Center and St. Boniface Hospital, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

  15. 15

    Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ

  1. §

    fax: (966)-1-8011111 # 18880

*College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, P.O. Box 22490, Intensive Care Department, MC 1425, Riyadh, 11426, Saudi Arabia

  1. †

    Potential conflict of interest: Anand Kumar received unrestricted research grants from Eli-Lilly, Pfizer, Bayer, Astellas, Merck, the Manitoba Health Research Council, the Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg) Foundation, the Innovations and Opportunities Foundation (Winnipeg), and the Deacon Foundation (Winnipeg).

  2. ‡

    Additional and associate members of the Cooperative Antimicrobial Therapy of Septic Shock Database Research Group are listed in the Appendix.

  3. §

    fax: (966)-1-8011111 # 18880

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 4 DEC 2012
  2. Article first published online: 4 DEC 2012
  3. Accepted manuscript online: 30 JUN 2012 02:02AM EST
  4. Manuscript Accepted: 12 JUN 2012
  5. Manuscript Received: 25 OCT 2011

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