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Biochemical investigations after burning injury: complement system, protease-antiprotease balance and acute-phase reactants.
Faymonville, Marie; Micheels, Jean; Bodson, Lucien et al.
1987In Burns: Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries, 13 (1), p. 26-33
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Keywords :
Acute-Phase Proteins/blood; Adult; Blood Proteins; Burns/blood/enzymology/immunology; C-Reactive Protein/analysis; Complement Activation; Complement C3/analysis; Complement C3d; Complement C5/analysis; Complement C5a; Complement System Proteins/analysis; Female; Humans; Leukocytes/enzymology; Male; Middle Aged; Pancreatic Elastase/blood; Peptide Hydrolases/blood; Prospective Studies; Protease Inhibitors/blood; alpha 1-Antitrypsin; alpha-Macroglobulins/analysis
Abstract :
[en] Seventeen burned patients were investigated--Group I (n=10) with a mean burned area expressed as unit burn standard (UBS) of 69 +/- 24 and Group II (n = 7) with a mean UBS of 23 +/- 8. Blood samples were collected immediately after admission, 6-12 h after injury, during the morning and evening of day 1, and then daily for 2 weeks. This prospective study demonstrated complement activation in vivo in all burned patients, measured by C3d/C3 ratio index which was not related to the extent of the burned surface. A significant protease-antiprotease imbalance, correlated to the severity of burns, was found, leukocyte elastase was increased throughout the observation period, alpha 2-macroglobulin drastically decreased in severely burned patients, and alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor promptly decreased below the normal level in patients with more than 40 UBS. Finally, there was a delayed but then persistent acute-phase reactant protein response involving C-reactive protein, haptoglobin and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein, the concentrations of which reached a plateau on days 6 or 7.
Disciplines :
Anesthesia & intensive care
Human health sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Faymonville, Marie ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Anesthésie et réanimation
Micheels, Jean ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la santé publique > Département des sciences de la santé publique
Bodson, Lucien ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Urgences
Jacquemin, Denise ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Chirurgie maxillo-faciale et plastique
Lamy, Maurice ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Département des sciences cliniques
Adam, J.
Duchateau, J.
Language :
English
Title :
Biochemical investigations after burning injury: complement system, protease-antiprotease balance and acute-phase reactants.
Publication date :
1987
Journal title :
Burns: Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
ISSN :
0305-4179
eISSN :
1879-1409
Publisher :
Elsevier, New York, United States - New York
Volume :
13
Issue :
1
Pages :
26-33
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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