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This young medical specialty has evolved, over only a few decades, into a high-tech branch of medicine that uses sophisticated mechanical devices to support the function of vital organs and a wide array of powerful drugs and monitoring systems, allowing patients to survive a variety of previously lethal insults such as multiple trauma, extensive surgery or severe illness. The initial re<picture><source></source><img alt="" class="left image-inline image-richtext picture-variant-small" height="150" src="https://gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/research/50000618/laboratory-of-intensive-care-medicine/images/patienten.jpg/@@images/image-400-e2e106e3f58eb009da2b64b7a0804168.jpeg" title="patienten" width="400" /></picture>asons for admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) vary but have in common that they all evoke cell damage, via hypoperfusion, hypoxia, excessive inflammation or metabolic insults. Approximately 30% of patients who survive the initial shock phase of their lethal insult continue to remain dependent upon intensive care medicine for a longer time, hereby entering a chronic phase of critical illness. Despite best efforts, mortality among such patients, who require intensive care for more than a few days, has remained around 20% worldwide. For the majority of patients who do not survive after extended critical care dependency, the cause of death is therapy-resistant, non-resolving multiple organ failure and weakness. The exact pathophysiology of this condition, which affects millions of patients each year worldwide and consumes a large fraction of health care resources, remains incompletely understood.</p> <p>Our overall research objective is to unravel key pathways underlying critical illness-induced organ failure, thereby identifying potential therapeutic targets to enhance recovery. We focus on endocrine and metabolic underlying mechanisms of organ-specific problems evoked by critical illness.</p> <hr /></div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-4"> <div class="kul-card-image card card-gray"> <div class="card-body"> <h2>Endocrine response to stress</h2> <p>The first contribution by our research group has been to introduce, by carefully designed studies in acute and prolonged critically ill patients and animal models, the distinction between the initial acute stress response...</p> <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/research/50000618/laboratory-of-intensive-care-medicine/researcharticles/endocrine-response-to-stress">Read more</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-4"> <div class="kul-card-image card card-gray"> <div class="card-body"> <h2>Glucose toxicity</h2> <p>The second focus of our research group comprised the research on the so-called “diabetes of injury”. Hyperglycemia and insulin resistance are common in patients with critical illness, even when glucose homeostasis was previously normal...</p> <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/research/50000618/laboratory-of-intensive-care-medicine/researcharticles/glucose-toxicity">Read more</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-4"> <div class="kul-card-image card card-gray"> <div class="card-body"> <h2>Nutrients and autophagy</h2> <p>While studying human tissue biopsies from ICU patients, the group had discovered that one of the most key cellular pathways for damage removal, autophagy, appears to fail during critical illness...</p> <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/research/50000618/laboratory-of-intensive-care-medicine/researcharticles/nutrients-and-autophagy">Read more</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-4"> <div class="kul-card-image card card-gray"> <div 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