High endocan levels are associated with the need for mechanical ventilation among patients with severe sepsis

Affiliations

• ¹ University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
• ² South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX, USA.
• ³ Critical Care Department, Joan XXIII University Hospital and Pere Virgili Health Institute, CIBERES, Tarragona, Spain.
• ⁴ University of Milan Bicocca, Clinica Pneumologica, Monza, Italy.
• ⁵ Servei de Pneumologia, Departament de Medicina, Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁶ Critical Care Department, Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, CIBERES, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁷ Department of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and SFB-TR84 "Innate Immunity of the Lung", Berlin, Germany.
• ⁸ Royal Perth Hospital Unit, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
• ⁹ St. James's Hospital, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, CIBERES, Dublin, Ireland.
• ¹⁰ Unidad Cuidados Intensivos Respiratorios, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Valencia, Spain.
• ¹¹ Pulmonology Department, Consorci Hospital General Universitari de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
• ¹² Servicio de Neumología, Instituto de investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas, Universidade da Coruña (UDC), A Coruña, Spain.
• ¹³ Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrín, CIBERES, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain.
• ¹⁴ University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
• ¹⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ¹⁶ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ¹⁷ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
• ¹⁸ Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
• ¹⁹ University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA restrepom@uthscsa.edu.