• Claudio Ronco, Ciro Tetta, Filippo Mariano, Mary Lou Wratten, Monica Bonello, Valeria Bordoni, Ximena Cardona, Paola Inguaggiato, Lidia Pilotto, Vince d'Intini, and Rinaldo Bellomo.
• Department of Nephrology, St. Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy. cronco@goldnet.it
• Artif Organs. 2003 Sep 1;27(9):792-801.

AbstractSevere sepsis and septic shock are the primary causes of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), which is the most frequent cause of death in intensive care unit patients. Many water-soluble mediators with pro- and anti-inflammatory action such as TNF, IL-6, IL-8, and IL-10 play a strategic role in septic syndrome. In intensive care medicine, blocking any one mediator has not led to a measurable outcome improvement in patients with sepsis. CRRT is a continuously acting therapy, which removes in a nonselective way pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators; "the peak concentration hypothesis" is the concept of cutting peaks of soluble mediators through continuous hemofiltration. Furthermore, there is evidence of increased efficacy of high-volume hemofiltration compared to conventional CVVH, and other blood purification techniques that utilize large-pore membranes or sorbent plasmafiltration are conceptually interesting.

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