Skip to main content

Table 2 Clinical data on patients with severe sepsis

From: Phase I safety trial of intravenous ascorbic acid in patients with severe sepsis

Underlying conditions

Source of sepsis

Organism

Renal failure?

Respiratory failure?

Lung cancer

Pneumonia

Blood: E.coli, Strep bovis

no

yes

Resp: E.coli

Prodrome with nausea and vomiting for 7 days

Pneumonia

Blood: culture negative

no

yes

Urine: Legionella antigen positive

ETOH cirrhosis

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

Blood: culture negative

no

yes

Status/Post gastric bypass

Urinary tract infection

Blood: E. Coli

no

yes

Obstructive nephrolithiasis pyelonephritis

Urinary tract infection

Blood: E.Coli

no

yes

Urine: E.Coli

End stage renal disease

Catheter sepsis

Blood: MRSA

yes (prior to admission)

yes

Acute myelogenous leukemia (relapse)

Portacath sepsis

Blood: MRSA

no

yes

Urine: Enterobacter

Influenza

Pneumonia with coexistent Influenza A

Blood: Strep pneumonia

no

yes

Resp: Influenza A

Diabetes mellitus

Infected diabetic foot ulcer

Blood: Staph aureus

no

yes

Chronic kidney disease

Body Fluid: Staph aureus

Gout

Resp: MRSA

Head and neck cancer

Pneumonia

Blood: culture negative

no

yes

Resp: culture negative

Diabetes mellitus

Pneumonia and colitis

Blood: culture negative

yes (dialysis required)

yes

Congestive heart failure

Gastrointestinal hemorrhage

Resp: MRSA

Cellulitis

Pneumonia

Blood: Group a strep.

no

no

Hypercholesterolemia

Urinary tract infection

Multiple myeloma

PneumoniaUrinary tract infection

Blood: Gram positive cocci

no

yes

Urine: Proteus mirabilis

Non-Hodgkins lymphoma

Pancreatitis

Resp: Aspergillus fumigatus

no

yes

Bone marrow transplant

Intra-abdominal sepsis

Blood: Gram negative rods, Gram positive cocci

no

yes

Bowel perforation

Post allogeneic bone marrow transplant

Pneumonia

Blood: culture negative

no

yes

Chronic opiate use

Aspiration pneumonia

Blood: Strep. pneumonia

no

yes

Found obtunded

Resp: Strep. pneumonia, Candida glabrata

Diabetes mellitus

Aspiration pneumonia

Resp: Gram negative rods, gram positive cocci

yes (prior to admission)

yes

End stage renal disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Pneumonia

Blood: culture negative

no

yes

Resp: Acinetobacter, Stenotrophomonas maltiphilia

Toxic epidermal necrolysis

Skin

Blood: MRSA

yes

yes

Acute renal failure

Alcoholic cirrhosis

Subacute bacterial peritonitis

Blood: culture negative

no

no

Hepatorenal syndrome

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Pneumonia

Blood: Gram positive rods

no

yes

Severe ankylosing spondylitis

Urinary tract infection

Blood: Klebsiella pneumonia

no

yes

Urine: Klebsiella pneumonia

Severe aortic stenosis

Hepatitis C cirrhosis

Health care acquired pneumonia

Blood: culture negative

yes (dialysis required)

yes

Urine: Enterococcus

Esophageal varicies

Systemic mastocytosis

Pneumonia

Blood: culture negative

no

yes

Congestive heart failure

Resp: Budding yeast with pseudohyphae