Treatment with IL-1Ra significantly improves 28-day survival in HBD/DIC sepsis, but does not change the outcome in non-HBD/DIC sepsis.
HBD: hepatobiliary dysfunction
DIC: disseminated intravascular coagulation
rIL-1Ra: anakinra (abbreviation for recombinant interleukin-1 receptor antagonist)
HBD/DIC group: patients with severe sepsis who demonstrate BOTH HBD and DIC features
Non-HBD/DIC group: patients with either HBD alone (no DIC), DIC alone (no HBD, or neither.
Statistically significant pP value is set at 0.05.