PTX3 and Sepsis: Moreover, the levels of PTX3 were remarkably higher in patients with severe organ dysfunctions, characterized by whose SOFA score of sub-groups, including coagulation, cardiovascular, kidney, and neuropsychiatric, were higher than 2 (Figure 2C), and raised along with the increased numbers of failure organs (Figure 2D), which suggested that PTX3 appeared to be linked with the degree of the severity of sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS).