Data and sample collection
AKI, infection, septic shock
INFECTION, SEPTIC SHOCK, CORONAVIRUS, BLOOD, SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME
The baseline data, including patients’ characteristics such as age, sex, comorbidities, AKI stage on admission, source of infection, and detected microorganism (COVID-19 was diagnosed based on the detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 [SARS-CoV-2] on reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction or SARS-CoV-2 antigen from a nasopharyngeal swab sample), diagnosed septic shock [Blood samples and filtrates were drawn from the extracorporeal circuit at the inlet and outlet of the hemofilter 2–6 and 12–24 h after initiating CRRT (circuit schema is shown in Additional file TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, MIG, and MIP-1α levels were measured using a HISCL-5000 (Sysmex Co., Kobe, Japan) [