MGAM and Sepsis: ,25 Seeking further arguments to support this hypothesis, we quantified MG plasma concentrations in another random sample of 20 patients with sepsis or septic shock on admission to the intensive care unit, which participated in a second observational clinical study (SI Table S4A and B)9 and compared the 50% of patients with the highest MG plasma concentrations (‘upper half’) to those with the lowest MG plasma concentrations (‘lower half’).