Eric Nylen

Section of Endocrinology, George Washington University School of Medicine, United States of America

Professor of Medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine
Chief of Diabetes at VAMC, Washington, DC
VAMC director of Endocrinology fellowship program
Boarded in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology

Current research areas:
Diabetes: ACCORD trial; oral diabetic pathology; paraoxonase and antioxidant therapy
Critical care: Procalcitonin as a marker and mediator of human and experimental sepsis

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Critical Care & Emergency Medicine > Metabolic Disorders in Critical Care (since 11 November 2005)

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  Acute, muscle-type specific insulin resistance following injury.
  Recommended by Eric Nylen
  
• 6.5
  Cell-free hemoglobin-based blood substitutes and risk of myocardial infarction and death: a meta-analysis.
  Recommended by John Augoustides, Eric Nylen with Nitin Seam, Alain Vuylsteke
  Dissent by Michael James
• 5.5
  Vasopressin versus norepinephrine infusion in patients with septic shock.
  Recommended by Francis Leclerc, Andrew Davenport, Didier Journois with Guillaume Dubreuil, Jiri Horak, Eric Nylen with Nitin Seam, Martin Dunser, John Myburgh, Patrick Ray, Jacob Sznajder with Gökhan M Mutlu
  
• 7.6
  Hydrocortisone therapy for patients with septic shock.
  Recommended by Patrick Ray, Judy Kersten with Julien Amour, Greg McAnulty, Martin Dunser, John Laffey, Eric Nylen, Martin Llewelyn, Alain Vuylsteke, Robert Dluhy with Florencia Halperin
  Dissent by Greg Martin, Didier Journois with Guillaume Dubreuil
• 3.0
  Measurement of salivary cortisol concentration in the assessment of adrenal function in critically ill subjects: a surrogate marker of the circulating free cortisol.
  Recommended by Eric Nylen
  
• 3.0
  Statin use and hospitalization for sepsis in patients with chronic kidney disease.
  Recommended by Eric Nylen
  
• 3.0
  Chemical chaperones reduce ER stress and restore glucose homeostasis in a mouse model of type 2 diabetes.
  Recommended by Eric Nylen
  
• 6.4
  Septic shock and sepsis: a comparison of total and free plasma cortisol levels.
  Recommended by Albertus Beishuizen, Eric Nylen