Abstract
Dysregulated cardiac function after sepsis in intensive care unit is known to predict poor long-term outcome and increase mortality. Their pathological feature and molecular mechanism remain unclear. We observed that septic patients with depressed left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) have the highest in-hospital and 28days mortality comparing to patients with hyperdynamic LVEF or with heart failure with preserved LVEF. Echocardiograms reveal that survivors post cecum ligation and puncture (CLP) on rodents have stable LVEF and non-survivors have fluctuated LVEF at CLP early phase. CLP-induced mice fall into three groups based on LVEF 24h post-surgery: high-, low-, and normal-LVEF. Transcriptomic and proteomic analyses identify jointly and distinctively changed genes, proteins and biologically essential pathways in left ventricles from three CLP groups. Notably, transmission electron microscopy shows different mitochondrial and sarcomere defects associated with LVEF variances. Together, this study systematically characterizes the molecular, morphological, and functional alterations in CLP-induced cardiac injury.
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