TY - BOOK AU - Adel Mohammed Yasin Elsisi AU - Shereen Elgengihi , AU - Waheed Radwan , AU - Yehia Fayed , TI - Gastric mucosal changes in critically-ill septic patients and plasma DNA concentration as an early predictor factor for their clinical outcome / PY - 2008/// CY - Cairo : PB - Adel Mohammed Yasin Elsisi , KW - Plasma DNA KW - Prognostic marker KW - Sepsis N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Critical Care Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - To investigate the prognostic value of circulating levels of cell-free DNA in patients with sepsis in the intensive care setting regarding the clinical course and final outcome. Moreover, to compare this prognostic value of circulating cell-free DNA levels with other commonly used biochemical markers for prognosis of sepsis (CRP an Procalctionin) and with the APACHE 11 and SOFA scoring systems ER -