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Critical care medicine · Nov 1984
Sequential hemofiltration in nonoliguric high capillary permeability pulmonary edema of severe sepsis: preliminary report.
- L Gotloib, E Barzilay, A Shustak, and A Lev.
- Crit. Care Med. 1984 Nov 1; 12 (11): 997-1000.
AbstractFive patients with nonoliguric adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) secondary to severe sepsis showed improved blood oxygenation after up to 36 h of conventional therapy and mechanical ventilation with optimal positive end-expiratory pressure. However, metabolic acidosis was unchanged, and blood urea had increased. Some patients showed hemodynamic signs of incipient heart failure. After sequential hemofiltration, the altered physiologic shunt and blood pH returned to normal. Chest x-rays showed clearing of interstitial pulmonary edema. Patients recovered from ARDS in spite of fluid accumulation. Mechanical ventilation was stopped up to 8.5 h after the last hemofiltration. We postulate that convective ultrafiltration clears the blood of circulating low- and middle-weight vasoactive molecules implicated in the development of high microvascular permeability acute pulmonary edema secondary to sepsis.
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