Elevated serum interleukin 6 levels in patients with acute intestinal ischemia.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Early diagnosis of patients with acute intestinal ischemia may be possible by measuring serum cytokine levels. METHODOLOGY: Forty-six patients presenting in emergency with an acute abdomen where intestinal ischemia was a possible diagnosis were evaluated. A single blood sample was collected in emergency prior to any intervention and the patients were then followed prospectively. Serum tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6 levels were determined at a later date. Serum levels in patients with proven acute intestinal ischemia were compared to patients with other diagnoses. RESULTS: Serum tumor necrosis factor-alpha levels were moderately increased in patients with acute intestinal ischemia compared to controls 96.9 +/- 98.9 pg/mL vs. 60.8 +/- 63.7 pg/mL, P = 0.16. Serum interleukin-6 levels were significantly increased in patients with acute intestinal ischemia, 15.778 +/- 21.349 pg/mL vs. 2.844 +/- 5.625 pg/mL, P = 0.01. CONCLUSIONS: Serum interleukin-6 levels may prove useful in diagnosing patients with acute intestinal ischemia.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".