Serial Inflammatory Biomarkers of the Severity, Course and Outcome of Late Onset Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Critically Ill Patients With or At Risk for the Syndrome After New-Onset Fever

Abstract

Whereas IL-6 and PCT had some disease monitoring value, ANG2 was the only biomarker capable of both predicting the severity, monitoring the course and predicting the outcome of late onset ARDS in febrile critically ill patients, irrespective of underlying risk factor, thereby yielding the most specific ARDS biomarker among those studied.