Precision Medicine Approach in Septic Patients
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Intensive Care/ Anesthesiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 3194
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care I, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Carol Davila, 020021 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: intensive care of patients with chronic liver disease; ARDS; sepsis
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2. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: anesthesia in major abdominal surgery; perioperative neurocognition; epigenetics in hepatic diseases; epigenetic modulation of the brain
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue on the topic of sepsis in the context of precision medicine, focussing on the follow questions: what have we learned from evidence-based medicine? What are its limits, and what benefits are we expecting to gain from precision medicine?
Sepsis is one of the most prevalent pathologies in critically ill patients, which, despite well-established guidelines, causes high morbidity and mortality rates worldwide.
The main difficulty in the diagnosis and treatment of sepsis is the tremendous heterogeneity of this condition. The heterogeneity that characterizes sepsis ranges from its clinical presentation to the biological aspects of the disease. Guideline-based medicine approaches involve the treatment of a homogenous syndrome, regardless of the individual discrepancies between patients with sepsis, for whom these approaches may confer poor outcomes.
In recent years, personalized medicine has gained significant interest. The importance of understanding the genetic, epigenetic, and molecular basis of this condition is a of paramount importance in the tailoring of approaches to patients. The study of “omics”, such as cytomics, genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, provides a deeper comprehension of the complex interactions between the host, the disease, and the environment.
This Special Issue aims to gather valuable materials (original articles, reviews, and case reports) regarding the potential role of a personalized approach in sepsis management, considering the interactions between various “omics” and clinical phenotypes.
Dr. Gabriela Droc
Guest Editor
Dr. Sebastian Isac
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- sepsis
- septic shock
- precision medicine
- epigenomics
- cytomics
- genomics
- proteomics
- metabolomics
- transcriptomics
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