PLASMA VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR IN SEVERE SEPSIS

Definitions for Sepsis and Organ Failure and Guidelines for the Use of Innovative Therapies in Sepsis

1992 • 12,726 citations

APACHE II-A Severity of Disease Classification System

1986 • 12,607 citations

APACHE II

1985 • 12,347 citations

The biology of VEGF and its receptors

2003 • 9,272 citations

American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus Conference

1992 • 4,689 citations

Vascular-specific growth factors and blood vessel formation

2000 • 3,667 citations

Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score

1995 • 2,453 citations

High-Dose Antithrombin III in Severe Sepsis

2001 • 1,381 citations

Angiopoietin-1 protects the adult vasculature against plasma leakage

2000 • 1,271 citations

Platelet: transporter of vascular endothelial growth factor.

1997 • 374 citations

Intracellular Pool of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Human Neutrophils

1997 • 344 citations

A target‐mediated model to describe the pharmacokinetics and hemodynamic effects of recombinant human vascular endothelial growth factor in humans

2002 • 268 citations

Proinflammatory Mediators Stimulate Neutrophil-Directed Angiogenesis

1999 • 257 citations

Hypoxia induces permeability in brain microvessel endothelial cells via VEGF and NO

1999 • 239 citations

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor May Contribute to Increased Vascular Permeability in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

2001 • 229 citations

Lower-Extremity Edema Associated with Gene Transfer of Naked DNA Encoding Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor

2000 • 177 citations

Identification of the antivasopermeability effect of pigment epithelium-derived factor and its active site

2004 • 129 citations

A permissive role for tumor necrosis factor in vascular endothelial growth factor-induced vascular permeability

2001 • 105 citations

Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with rheumatoid arthritis spontaneously secrete vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF): specific up-regulation by tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) in synovial fluid

1999 • 89 citations

Serum and plasma levels of FGF-2 and VEGF in healthy blood donors.

2002 • 88 citations

Evaluation of noninvasive determinants for capillary leakage syndrome in septic shock patients

2000 • 70 citations

Strongly Enhanced Serum Levels of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) after Poly-trauma and Burn

1998 • 65 citations

The pathogenesis of septic shock

1995 • 61 citations

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Bacterial Meningitis: Detection in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Localization in Postmortem Brain

2001 • 57 citations

Streptococcus pneumoniaeInduces Secretion of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor by Human Neutrophils

2000 • 36 citations

Marked increase in vascular endothelial growth factor concentrations during Escherichia coli endotoxin‐induced acute inflammation in humans

2003 • 30 citations

Bacterial Wall Products Induce Downregulation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptors on Endothelial Cells via a CD14-Dependent Mechanism: Implications for Surgical Wound Healing

2001 • 27 citations

Plasma vascular endothelial growth factor level is a predictor of the severity of postoperative capillary leak syndrome in neonates undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass

2002 • 26 citations