Clinical sepsis phenotypes in critically ill COVID-19 patients

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BACKGROUND: A greater understanding of disease heterogeneity may facilitate precision medicine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Previous work identified four distinct clinical phenotypes associated with outcome and treatment responses in non-COVID-19 sepsis patients, but it is unknown if and how these phenotypes are recapitulated in COVID-19 sepsis patients.

METHODS: We applied the four non-COVID-19 sepsis phenotypes to a total of 52,274 critically ill patients, comprising two cohorts of COVID-19 sepsis patients (admitted before and after the introduction of dexamethasone as standard treatment) and three non-COVID-19 sepsis cohorts (non-COVID-19 viral pneumonia sepsis, bacterial pneumonia sepsis, and bacterial sepsis of non-pulmonary origin). Differences in proportions of phenotypes and their associated mortality were determined across these cohorts.

RESULTS: Phenotype distribution was highly similar between COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 viral pneumonia sepsis cohorts, whereas the proportion of patients with the δ-phenotype was greater in both bacterial sepsis cohorts compared to the viral sepsis cohorts. The introduction of dexamethasone treatment was associated with an increased proportion of patients with the δ-phenotype (6% vs. 11% in the pre- and post-dexamethasone COVID-19 cohorts, respectively, p < 0.001). Across the cohorts, the α-phenotype was associated with the most favorable outcome, while the δ-phenotype was associated with the highest mortality. Survival of the δ-phenotype was markedly higher following the introduction of dexamethasone (60% vs 41%, p < 0.001), whereas no relevant differences in survival were observed for the other phenotypes among COVID-19 patients.

CONCLUSIONS: Classification of critically ill COVID-19 patients into clinical phenotypes may aid prognostication, prediction of treatment efficacy, and facilitation of personalized medicine.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

Enthalten in:

Critical care (London, England) - 26(2022), 1 vom: 09. Aug., Seite 244

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bruse, Niklas [VerfasserIn]
Kooistra, Emma J [VerfasserIn]
Jansen, Aron [VerfasserIn]
van Amstel, Rombout B E [VerfasserIn]
de Keizer, Nicolette F [VerfasserIn]
Kennedy, Jason N [VerfasserIn]
Seymour, Christopher [VerfasserIn]
van Vught, Lonneke A [VerfasserIn]
Pickkers, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Kox, Matthijs [VerfasserIn]

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7S5I7G3JQL
COVID-19
Dexamethasone
Journal Article
Personalized medicine
Phenotypes
Sepsis

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Date Completed 11.08.2022

Date Revised 18.08.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s13054-022-04118-6

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM344649989