Interfering with metabolism during critical illness: from acute to longterm consequences KU Leuven
Intensive care medicine “bridges” critically ill patients to recovery. Inter-individual variability in the capacity and speed of recovery from organ failure points to a degree of genetic predisposition. However, insight in why certain patients recover and others don’t remains very limited. Organs from patients who do not recover show few if any signs of cell death. Instead, cells accumulate damaged and dysfunctional organelles, damaged ...