The title of the original article has been corrected to: Assessment of tumor necrosis factor alpha polymorphism TNF-α (rs 361525) as a risk factor for development of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients. The original article has been corrected to reflect the correct title.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Critically ill patients revealed significant adverse outcomes (sepsis, septic shock, organ dysfunction/failure, and mortality) despite variable effort.
Aim: this study evaluated the association of TNF-a (rs 361525) with adverse outcomes in critically ill patients. TNF-α (rs 361525) SNP was performed by RT-PCR on 200 critically-ill patients (112 had severe sepsis and septic shock and 88 were septic), 127 of them had AKI.