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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
John E Repine, Englewood, CO (US);
Jonathan A Leff, Littleton, CO (US);
Assignees:
The Regents of the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (US);
The Webb-Waring Institute for Biomedical Research, Denver, CO (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 26 ; 435 13 ; 435 27 ;
Abstract
At the initial diagnosis of sepsis (6-24 h before the development of ARDS), serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activity level is increased in septic patients who subsequently develop ARDS compared to healthy patients and septic patients who do not develop ARDS. A method is disclosed for predicting the occurrence of ARDS in a septic patient from the patient's serum level of LDH activity, which method facilitates identification of subsets of patients destined to develop ARDS and allows prospective treatment of such septic patients.