This is a prospective cohort study using gene expression to study patients with infection and sepsis from pneumonia.
This is a prospective cohort study using single cell transcriptomic profiling and plasma DNA tissue mapping on patients with pneumonia with or without sepsis. The major application of the investigator's study would be the discovery of gene expressions in different leucocytes and plasma DNA associated with each type of organ dysfunction in sepsis. These include cardiovascular, respiratory, hepatic, renal, neurological and haematological dysfunction. This would help prediction, diagnosis and development of therapies to treat sepsis. Leucocyte single cell transcriptome and plasma DNA tissue mapping may addresses the limitations of current evidence in 3 ways: (1) differentiate patients with uncomplicated pneumonia versus pneumonia with associated sepsis, (2) correlation with types and severity of organ dysfunction and (3) identifying molecular phenotypes of sepsis.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
120
Prince of Wales Hospital
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
RECRUITINGblood single cell transcriptome in infection and sepsis
comparison of single cell transcriptome between patients with uncomplicated pneumonia and pneumonia with sepsis
Time frame: within 24 hours of hospital admission
blood single cell transcriptome as marker of organ dysfunction
association of single cell transcriptome with different types and severity of organ dysfunction
Time frame: at time points 0, 24 and 72 hours
plasma DNA
comparison of plasma DNA with different types and severity of organ dysfunction
Time frame: at time points 0, 24 and 72 hours
blood single cell transcriptome as predictor of clinical outcome
association of single cell transcriptome with mortality and morbidity outcomes
Time frame: at time points 0, 24 and 72 hours
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