Circulating fatty acid binding protein as a marker of intestinal failure in septic patients.docVIP

Machado et al. Critical Care 2012, 16:455 /content/16/6/455 LETTER Circulating fatty acid binding protein as a marker of intestinal failure in septic patients Marcel Cerqueira César Machado, Hermes Vieira Barbeiro, Fabiano Pinheiro da Silva* and Heraldo Possolo de Souza Intestinal hypoperfusion in sepsis may result in loss of Fatty-acid binding protein 6 gut barrier and bacterial translocation, further complicating the already severe septic state. Intestinal dysfunction in critically ill patients is underestimated and p= 0.045 may be associated wit