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. 2022 Jun 23;13:910516. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.910516

TABLE 1.

Clinical studies evaluating anti-inflammation strategies to treat sepsis.

Intervention References Citation in references Notes
Corticosteroids 1. 1984/Sprung CL et al., MEJM, vol 311(18), pages 1137,1143, 1984 Sprung et al. (1984)
2. 1987/Bone RC et al, NEJM, vol 317(11), pages 653–658, 1987 Bone et al. (1987)
3. 1987/The Veterans Administration Systemic Sepsis Cooperative Study Group, NEJM, vol 317(11), pages 659–665, 1987 Veterans Administration Systemic Sepsis Cooperative Study Group, (1987)
4. 2002/Annane D et al, JAMA, vol vol 288(7), pages 863–871, 2002 Annane et al. (2002)
5. 2007/Cicarelli DD et al, Sao Paulo Medical Journal, vol 25(4), pages 237–241, 2007 Cicarelli et al. (2007)
6. 2008/Sprung CL et al, NEJM, vol 358(2), pages 111–124, 2008 Sprung et al. (2008)
7. 2016/Keh D et al, JAMA, vol 316(17), pages 1775–1785, 2016 Keh et al. (2016)
8. 2016/Gordon AC et al, JAMA vol 316(5), pages 509–518, 2016 Gordon et al. (2016)
9. 2018/Venkatesh B et al, NEJM, vol 378(9), pages 797–808, 2018 Venkatesh et al. (2018)
Aspirin 1. 2016/Kor DJ et al, JAMA, 15 May 2016 (E-pub) Kor et al. (2016) Randomized controlled study of aspirin prophylaxis to avert acute respiratory distress syndrome; about 77% of patients with suspected sepsis on enrollment-no mortality. difference with aspirin.
Acetaminophen 1. 2015/Young P et al, NEJM, vol 373(23), pages 2215–2224, 2015 Young et al. (2015)
Ibuprofen 1. 1991/Haupt MT et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 19(11), pages 1339–1347, 1991 Haupt et al. (1991)
2. 1997/Bernard GR et al, NEJM, vol 336(13), pages 912–918, 1997 Bernard et al. (1997)
Physical Cooling 1. 2013/Yang Y-L et al, Chinese Medical Journal, vol 126(10), pages 1809–1813, 2013 Yang et al. (2013) Water-flow cooling blankets. Increased mortality in experimental group (statistically significant).
Neutrophil Elastase Inhibitor 1. Zeiher BG et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 32(8), pages 1695–1702, 2004 Zeiher et al. (2004) Small molecule inhibitor in patients with acute lung injury, of whom 58.5% were caused by infection. Subgroup with pulmonary infection showed no mortality benefit.
Phospholipase A2 inhibition 1. 2003/Abraham E et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 31(3), pages 718–728, 2003 Abraham et al. (2003a)
Anti-endotoxin antibodies 1. 1991/Ziegler EJ et al, NEJM, vol 324(7), pages 429–438, 1991 Ziegler et al. (1991)
2. 1991/Greenman RL et al, JAMA, vol 266(8), pages 1097–1102, 1991 Greenman et al. (1991)
3. 1994/McCloskey RV et al, Annals of Internal Medicine, vol 121(1), pages 1–5, 1994 McCloskey et al. (1994)
4. 1999/Derkx B et al, Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol 28, pages 770–777, 1999 Derkx et al. (1999)
TLR4 antagonist (synthetic) 1. 2010/Rice TW et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 38(8), pages 1–10, 2010 Rice et al. (2010)
2. 2013/Opal SM et al, JAMA, vol 309(11), pages 1154–1162, 2013 Opal et al. (2013)
Endotoxin hemofiltration 1. 2014/Iwagami M et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 42(5), pages 1187–1193, 2014 Iwagami et al. (2014)
Polymyxin B hemoperfusion 1. 2018/Dellinger RP et al, JAMA, vol 320(14), pages 1455–1463, 2018 Dellinger et al. (2018)
2. 2015/Payen DM et al, Intensive Care Medicine, vol 41(6), pages 975–984, 2015 Payen et al. (2015)
3. 2009/Cruz DN et al, JAMA, vol 301(23), pages 2445–2452, 2009 Cruz et al. (2009)
Bactericidal/Permeability Increasing Protein 1. 2000/Levin M et al, The Lancet, vol 356(9234), pages 961–967, 2000 Levin et al. (2000) Recombinant protein.
Continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (low volume) 1. 2009/Payen D et al, Critical Care medicine, vol 37(3), pages 803–810, 2009 Payen et al. (2009)
Continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (high volume) 1. 2013/Joannes-Boyau O et al, Intensive Care Medicine, vol 39(9), pages 1535–1546, 2013 Joannes-Boyau et al. (2013) Meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies in N = 5 studies (N = 241 subjects) showing no differences between high volume hemofiltration vs low volume hemofiltration in Sepsis. Since above study showed no beneficial effect of low volume hemofiltration it is implied high-volume hemofiltration is likewise ineffective vs sepsis.
2. 2020/Yin F et al, Annals of Translational Medicine, vol 8(7), pages 1–10, 2020 Yin et al. (2020)
Plasma exchange 1. 2014/Rimmer E et al, Critical Care, vol 18(6), pages 1–8, 2014 Rimmer et al. (2014) Systematic review and meta-analysis identified 4 randomized controlled trials in pateints with sepsis or septic shock. Overall, no benefit but found benefit if analysis restricted to adult patients (N = 128) but not in children (N = 66).
CytoSorb Extracorporeal Cytokine Hemadsorption 1. 2017/Schädler D et al, Plos One, vol 12(10), pages 1–18, 2017 Schadler et al. (2017) Randomized controlled open-label study (N = 100, mortality = secondary outcome).
Coupled plasma filtration adsorption 1. 2014/Livigni S et al, BMJ Open, vol January 8, 4(1), pages 1–10, 2014 Livigni et al. (2014)
Phospholipid emulsion 1. 2009/Dellinger RP et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 37(11), pages 2029–2038, 2009 Dellinger et al. (2009)
Nitric oxide inhibition 1. 2004/Lopez A et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 32(1), pages 21–30, 2004 Lopez et al. (2004) Increased mortality in experimental group (statistically significant).
Bradykinin antagonist (synthetic) 1. 1997/Fein AM et al, JAMA, vol 277(6), pages 482–487, 1997 Fein et al. (1997)
Antithrombin-3 (natural) 1. 2001/Warren BL et al, JAMA, vol 286(15), pages 1868–1878, 2001 Warren et al. (2001)
2. 2013/Gando S et al, Critical Care, vol 17(6) R297, pages 1–10, 2013 Gando et al. (2013)
Tissue factor pathway inhibitor (recombinant) 1. 2001/Abraham E et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 29(11), pages 2081–2088, 2001 Abraham et al. (2001)
2. 2003/Abraham E et al, JAMA, vol 290(2), pages 238–247, 2003 Abraham et al. (2003b)
Soluble human thrombomodulin (human recombinant) 1. 2013/Vincent J-L et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 41(9), pages 2069–2079, 2013 Vincent et al. (2013) Review and meta-analysis of drug approved for DIC therapy in Japan; included 3 randomized controlled trials (N = 838) showing no 28–30 days mortality benefit in adult DIC patients with sepsis or severe sepsis.
2. 2014/Yamakawa K et al, Journal of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, vol 13 (4), pages 508–519, 2014 Yamakawa et al. (2015)
3. 2019/Vincent J-L et al, JAMA, vol 321(20), pages 1993–2002, 2019 Vincent et al. (2019)
Heparin (Heparin possesses anti-inflammatory properties) 1. 2007/Levi M et al, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol 176, pages 483–490, 2007 Levi et al. (2007) Randomized assignment to heparin in patients given activated protein C. Systematic review and meta-analysis (9 randomized controlled trials with 2,637 patients).
2. 2009/Jaimes F et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 37(4), pages 1185–1196), 2009 Jaimes et al. (2009)
3. 2015/Zarychanski R et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 43(3), pages 511–518, 2015 Zarychanski et al. (2015)
Activated Protein C (recombinant) 1. 2001/Bernard GR et al, NEJM, vol 344(10), pages 699–709, 2001 Bernard et al. (2001) Positive study- could not be replicated.
2. 2005/Abraham E et al, NEJM, vol 353(13), pages 1332–1341, 2005 Abraham et al. (2005)
3. 2007/Nadel et al, LANCET, vol 369, pages 836–843, 2007 Nadel et al. (2007)
4. 2012/Ranieri VM et al, NEJM, vol 366(2), pages 2055–2064, 2012 Ranieri et al. (2012)
IL-1 receptor antagonist (recombinant) 1. 1994/Fisher CJ et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 22(1), pages 12–21, 1994 Fisher et al. (1994b) Remarkable open label randomized placebo-controlled study showing dose-response mortality reduction.
2. 1994/Fisher CJ et al, JAMA, vol 271(23), pages 1836–1843, 1994 Fisher et al. (1994a)
3. 1997/Opal SM et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 25(7), pages 1115–1124, 1997 Opal et al. (1997)
TNF Antagonists 1. 1993/Fisher CJ et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 21(3), pages 318–327, 1993 Fisher et al. (1993)
2. 1995/Abraham E et al, JAMA, vol 273(12), pages 934–941, 1995 Abraham et al. (1995)
3. 1996/Fisher CJ et al, NEJM, vol 334(26), pages 1697–1702, 1996 Fisher et al. (1996) Used etanercept (Enbrel®). Increased mortality in experimental group (statistically significant).
4. 1996/Cohen J and Carlet J, Critical Care Medicine, vol 24(9), pages 1431–1440, 1996 Cohen and Carlet, (1996)
5. 1996/Reinhart K et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 24(5), pages 733–742, 1996 Reinhart et al. (1996)
6. 1998/Abraham E, Lancet, vol 351(9107), pages 929–933, 1998 Abraham et al. (1998)
7. 2001/Reinhart K et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 29(4), pages 765–769, 2001 Reinhart et al. (2001)
8. 2004/Panacek EA et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 32(11), pages 2173–2182, 2004 Panacek et al. (2004) Reported as positive study, but restricted to subgroup with IL-6>1,000 and using post-study logistic regression to balance data (both elements established prospectively).
9. 2006/Rice TW et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 34(9), pages 2271–2281, 2006 Rice et al. (2006)
Platelet Activating factor receptor antagonist 1. 1994/Dhainaut JF et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 22(11), pages 1720–1728, 1994 Dhainaut et al. (1994)
2. 1998/Dhainaut JF et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 26(12)), pages 1963–1971, 1998 Dhainaut et al. (1998)
3. 2000/Suputtamongkol Y et al, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol 44(3), pages 693–696, 2000 Suputtamongkol et al. (2000)
4. 2000/Vincent JL et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 28(3), pages 638–642, 2000 Vincent et al. (2000)
5. 2000/Poeze M et al, Shock, vol 14(4), pages 421–428, 2000 Poeze et al. (2000)
6. 2004/Opal S et al, Critical Care Medicine, vol 32(2), pages 332–341, 2004 Opal et al. (2004)
Statins 1. 2013/Kruger P et al, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol 187(7), pages 743–750, 2013 Kruger et al. (2013) Meta-analysis (4 randomized controlled studies, 1818 adult patients with severe sepsis). Systematic review and meta-analysis (7 randomized controlled studies, 1720 adult patients with sepsis). Systematic review of 8 randomized controlled studies (N = 2,275 adults with sepsis).
2. 2014/McAuley DF et al, New England Journal of Medline, vol 371(18), pages 1695–1703, 2014 McAuley et al. (2014)
3. 2015/Thomas G et al, Minerva Anestesiologica, vol 81(8), pages 921–930, 2015 Thomas et al. (2015)
4. 2015/Deshpande, A. et al, American Journal of Medicine, vol 128, pages 410–417, 2015 Deshpande et al. (2015)
5. 2016/Quinn M et al., Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, vol 20(9), pages 534–541, 2016 Quinn et al. (2016)
Vitamin C + Hydrocortisone + Thiamine 1. 2016/Marik PE et al, Chest, vol 151(6), pages 1229–1238, 2016. Marik et al. (2017) Substantial reduced mortality in non-contemporaneous controls (hospital mortality = 8.5% vs 40.4% = 79% relative mortality reduction). Septic shock in adults in prospective, randomized, controlled (hydrocortisone alone) trial that was OPEN LABEL; no effect for outcome of alive and vasopressor-free duration. Subgroups showed no mortality benefit for combination therapy at days 28, 90, or in ICU (in fact, mortality slightly increased for intervention for all mortality assessments). Another study with non-contemporaneous controls propensity-score matched showed no mortality benefit (mortality in ICU or 28 days or 60 days). No change in SOFA score over first 3 days. Intervention showed reduced length of stay in ICU or in hospital.
2. 2020/Fujii T et al, JAMA vol 324(5), pages 423–431, 2020 Fujii et al. (2020)
3. 2020/Mitchell AB et al, American Journal of Medicine, vol 133(5), pages 635–638, 2020 Mitchell et al. (2020)