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01-12-2022 | Letter to the Editor
Reply to: Scoring the capillary leak syndrome: towards an individualized gradation of the vascular barrier injury
Authors:
Jakob Wollborn, Ulrich Goebel
Published in:
Annals of Intensive Care
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Issue 1/2022
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Excerpt
We thank Belveyre et al. for their insightful and pertinent comments regarding our study, which aimed at better defining the clinical characteristics of critically ill patients showing capillary leak syndrome (CLS) [
1]. As the authors point out correctly, there is no consensus definition for CLS and only limited substantial data breaking down this extremely complex topic [
2]. It was our intention to analyze a heterogenous cohort of critically ill patients and to create a scoring system that is easy and feasible in a clinical setting, embracing the pathophysiological mechanism of CLS [
3]. …