MICROCIRCULATORY EVALUATION in SEPSIS: A DIFFICULT TASK

• Autor(a) principal: Koh, Ivan H. J. [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Díaz, José Luis Menchaca [UNIFESP], Koh, Tarso H. [UNIFESP], Souza, Ricardo L. [UNIFESP], Shu, Christopher M. [UNIFESP], Rogerio, Victor E. [UNIFESP], Liberatore, Ana M. A. [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/SHK.0b013e3181e7e80c; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/32841
• topic: Microcirculation; severe sepsis; septic shock; intravital microscopy; sidestream dark-field imaging; orthogonal polarization spectral imaging

Microcirculatory dysfunction plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of severe sepsis and septic shock; hence, microcirculation blood flow monitoring has gained increasing attention. However, microcirculatory imaging is still investigational in human sepsis and has not yet been incorporated into routine clinical practice for several reasons, including the difficult interpretation of microcirculation imaging data, difficulty to draw a parallel between sublingual microcirculation imaging and organ microcirculation dysfunction, as well as the absence of microvessel dysfunction parameters defining sequential microcirculatory changes from the early to late stages of the disease, which could aid in the context of therapeutic approaches and of prognostic parameters. the purpose of this review was to bridge the experimental abdominal organ microvascular derangement kinetics and clinical aspects of microcirculatory findings in the early phase of severe sepsis/septic shock.