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ReviewCritical care (London, England)2022

The central role of the gut in intensive care.

Alberto Corriero, Raffaella Maria Gadaleta, Filomena Puntillo, Francesco Inchingolo, Antonio Moschetta, Nicola Brienza

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In one paragraph

Review in Critical care (London, England), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
37citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alberto CorrieroDepartment of Interdisciplinary Medicine - ICU Section, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124, Bari, Italy. alberto.corriero@gmail.com.
Raffaella Maria GadaletaDepartment of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124, Bari, Italy.
Filomena PuntilloDepartment of Interdisciplinary Medicine - ICU Section, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124, Bari, Italy. filomena.puntillo@uniba.it.
Francesco InchingoloDental Medicine Section, Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", 70124, Bari, Italy.
Antonio MoschettaDepartment of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124, Bari, Italy.
Nicola BrienzaDepartment of Interdisciplinary Medicine - ICU Section, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124, Bari, Italy.
University of Bari Aldo Moro · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Critically ill patients undergo early impairment of their gut microbiota (GM) due to routine antibiotic therapies and other environmental factors leading to intestinal dysbiosis. The GM establishes connections with the rest of the human body along several axes representing critical inter-organ crosstalks that, once disrupted, play a major role in the pathophysiology of numerous diseases and their complications. Key players in this communication are GM metabolites such as short-chain fatty acids and bile acids, neurotransmitters, hormones, interleukins, and toxins. Intensivists juggle at the crossroad of multiple connections between the intestine and the rest of the body. Harnessing the GM in ICU could improve the management of several challenges, such as infections, traumatic brain injury, heart failure, kidney injury, and liver dysfunction. The study of molecular pathways affected by the GM in different clinical conditions is still at an early stage, and evidence in critically ill patients is lacking. This review aims to describe dysbiosis in critical illness and provide intensivists with a perspective on the potential as adjuvant strategies (e.g., nutrition, probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics supplementation, adsorbent charcoal, beta-lactamase, and fecal microbiota transplantation) to modulate the GM in ICU patients and attempt to restore eubiosis.

Indexed as

Critical CareHumansCritical illnessDysbiosisFecal microbiota transplantationIntensive careMicrobiomeMicrobiotaMultidrug-resistant bacteriaPrebioticsProbioticsSynbiotics

Identifiers

PMID36476497
PMCPMC9730662
OpenAlexW4311812630

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Registered trials

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