Association of Hyperferritinemia With Distinct Host Response Aberrations in Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia.
Xanthe BrandsTjitske S R van EngelenFloris M C de VriesBastiaan W HaakAugustijn M KlarenbeekMaadrika M N P KanglieInge A H van den BerkAlex R SchuurmanHessel Peters-SengersNatasja A OttoDaniël R FaberRené LutterBrendon P SciclunaJaap StokerJan M PrinsW Joost WiersingaTom van der PollPublished in: The Journal of infectious diseases (2022)
Hyperferritinemia identifies patients with CAP with a broad deregulation of various host response mechanisms implicated in the pathogenesis of sepsis. This could inform future therapeutic strategies targeting subgroups within the CAP population.