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- Title
Endotoxin and immune activation in chronic heart failure: a prospective cohort study.
- Authors
Niebauer, J; Volk, H D; Kemp, M; Dominguez, M; Schumann, R R; Rauchhaus, M; Poole-Wilson, P A; Coats, A J; Anker, S D
- Abstract
Immune activation in patients with chronic heart failure may be secondary to endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide) action. We investigated the hypothesis that altered gut permeability with bacterial translocation and endotoxaemia would be increased in patients with oedema secondary to congestive heart failure.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 1999, Vol 353, Issue 9167, p1838
- ISSN
0140-6736
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/S0140-6736(98)09286-1