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Overview

Peter Pickkers is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on critical care and nephrology. The scientist's work spans over 400 publications, addressing key topics in infectious diseases, epidemiology, immunology, and intensive care medicine.

The primary research topics covered by their work include:

  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Acute Kidney Injury Research
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Immune Response and Inflammation

Frequent publication venues for Peter Pickkers's research are:

  • Critical Care
  • Intensive Care Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Critical Care
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity

Among the notable recent papers published by Peter Pickkers are:

  • "Acute kidney injury in the critically ill: an updated review on pathophysiology and management" (2021) published in Intensive Care Medicine
  • "Swarm Learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning" (2021) published in Nature
  • "COVID-19-associated acute kidney injury: consensus report of the 25th Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) Workgroup" (2020) published in Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • "Recommendations on Acute Kidney Injury Biomarkers From the Acute Disease Quality Initiative Consensus Conference" (2020) published in JAMA Network Open
  • "Sepsis-associated acute kidney injury: consensus report of the 28th Acute Disease Quality Initiative workgroup" (2023) published in Nature Reviews Nephrology

Collaborations have involved frequent co-authors including:

  • Matthijs Kox
  • Mihai G. Netea
  • Frank L. van de Veerdonk
  • Emma J. Kooistra
  • Niklas Bruse

Peter Pickkers's research highlights significant contributions to understanding acute kidney injury, sepsis, and the effects of COVID-19 in critical care settings. Their work integrates multidisciplinary approaches from immunology to epidemiology, producing consensus reports and updated reviews that inform clinical practice and medical research in intensive care units.

Best Publications

  • Assessment of the worldwide burden of critical illness: The Intensive Care Over Nations (ICON) audit

    Jean Louis Vincent;John C Marshall;Silvio Antonio Ñamendys-Silva;Bruno François

  • Decontamination of the Digestive Tract and Oropharynx in ICU Patients

    P. Pickkers;D. Bogaers-Hofman;K. Kaasjager;M. van Iterson

  • A subset of neutrophils in human systemic inflammation inhibits T cell responses through Mac-1

    Janesh Pillay;Vera M. Kamp;Els van Hoffen;Tjaakje Visser

  • A guiding map for inflammation

    Mihai G Netea;Frances Balkwill;Michel Chonchol;Fabio Cominelli

  • A Unified Theory of Sepsis-Induced Acute Kidney Injury: Inflammation, microcirculatory dysfunction, bioenergetics and the tubular cell adaptation to injury

    Hernando Gomez;Can Ince;Daniel De Backer;Peter Pickkers

  • COVID-19-associated acute kidney injury: consensus report of the 25th Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) Workgroup.

    Mitra K. Nadim;Lui G. Forni;Lui G. Forni;Ravindra L. Mehta;Michael J. Connor

  • Time-course analysis of hepcidin, serum iron, and plasma cytokine levels in humans injected with LPS

    Erwin H Kemna;Erwin H Kemna;Peter Pickkers;Peter Pickkers;Elizabeta Nemeth;Elizabeta Nemeth;Hans van der Hoeven;Hans van der Hoeven

  • Broad defects in the energy metabolism of leukocytes underlie immunoparalysis in sepsis

    Shih Chin Cheng;Brendon P. Scicluna;Rob J W Arts;Mark S. Gresnigt

  • Recommendations on Acute Kidney Injury Biomarkers From the Acute Disease Quality Initiative Consensus Conference: A Consensus Statement.

    Marlies Ostermann;Alexander Zarbock;Stuart Goldstein;Kianoush Kashani

  • Swarm Learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning.

    Stefanie Warnat-Herresthal;Hartmut Schultze;Krishnaprasad Lingadahalli Shastry;Sathyanarayanan Manamohan

  • Vascular effects of glibenclamide vs. glimepiride and metformin in Type 2 diabetic patients

    E. J. Abbink;P. Pickkers;A. Jansen Van Rosendaal;J. A. Lutterman

  • β-Glucan Reverses the Epigenetic State of LPS-Induced Immunological Tolerance

    Boris Novakovic;Ehsan Habibi;Shuang-Yin Wang;Rob J.W. Arts

  • Inflammation in AKI: Current Understanding, Key Questions, and Knowledge Gaps

    Hamid Rabb;Matthew D. Griffin;Dianne B. McKay;Sundararaman Swaminathan

  • Development and validation of PRE-DELIRIC (PREdiction of DELIRium in ICu patients) delirium prediction model for intensive care patients: observational multicentre study

    M van den Boogaard;P Pickkers;A J C Slooter;M A Kuiper

  • Erratum to: 36th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine: Brussels, Belgium. 15-18 March 2016

    R. M. Bateman;M. D. Sharpe;J. E. Jagger;C. G. Ellis

  • Obesity in the critically ill: a narrative review.

    Miet Schetz;Audrey De Jong;Adam M Deane;Adam M Deane;Wilfried Druml

  • Delirium in critically ill patients: impact on long-term health-related quality of life and cognitive functioning.

    Mark van den Boogaard;Lisette Schoonhoven;Andrea W.M. Evers;Johannes G. van der Hoeven

  • Longitudinal Multi-omics Analyses Identify Responses of Megakaryocytes, Erythroid Cells, and Plasmablasts as Hallmarks of Severe COVID-19.

    Joana P. Bernardes;Neha Mishra;Florian Tran;Thomas Bahmer

  • Voluntary activation of the sympathetic nervous system and attenuation of the innate immune response in humans

    Matthijs Kox;Lucas T. van Eijk;Jelle Zwaag;Joanne van den Wildenberg

  • Cytokine Levels in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 and Other Conditions.

    Matthijs Kox;Nicole J. B. Waalders;Emma J. Kooistra;Jelle Gerretsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Mihai G. Netea
Mihai G. Netea Radboud University
Lisette Schoonhoven
Lisette Schoonhoven Utrecht University
Niels P. Riksen
Niels P. Riksen Radboud University
Frank L. van de Veerdonk
Frank L. van de Veerdonk Radboud University
Jordi Rello
Jordi Rello Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Leo A. B. Joosten
Leo A. B. Joosten Radboud University
Jean Louis Vincent
Jean Louis Vincent Université Libre de Bruxelles
Leo Koenderman
Leo Koenderman Utrecht University
John A. Kellum
John A. Kellum University of Pittsburgh

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