Table 1. Patient demographics.

Basic clinical information of patients with sepsis involved in the study is shown. Abbreviations for clinical assessments are APACHE II = Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation and SOFA = Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score. Data are shown as individual numbers for n = 38 for patients with sepsis.

Category	Number of patients (number/ mean)
Gender-M/F	M (22) and F (16)
Age (years)	60 ± 16.7
Body mass index (Kg/m2)	26.3 ± 0.7
Length of stay in ICU (days)	39.0 ± 5.4
Liver function tests	Good/normal (20) Moderate (8), Moderate dysfunction/poor (6) Severe dysfunction (3)
Right ventricular function	Good/normal (5) Moderate (5), Moderate dysfunction/poor (13) Severe dysfunction (1)
Clinical assessment; APACHE II SOFA 1–3	APACHE II: 18.7 ± 1.0 SOFA1: 9.2 ± 0.4 SOFA2: 9.0 ± 0.5 SOFA3: 8.5 ± 0.6
Diagnoses (more than one may be applicable per patient)	Sepsis/systemic inflammatory response syndrome/ multiple organ dysfunction (38) Pneumonia/acute respiratory distress syndrome (20) Endocarditis (1) Cardiac dysfunction (7) Acute renal failure (15)
Co-morbidities	Ischaemic heart disease (13) Hypertension (10) Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (5) Asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (3) Peripheral vascular disease (4)
Mortality (%)	29.0 (6M and 5F)