Sepsis Associated Articles & Analysis
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However, often still due to unexplainable reasons, the immune system instead stops fighting and attacks itself instead by producing uncontrolled and excessive amount of infection fighting proteins like cytokines, which can lead to a dangerous cytokine storm associated with sepsis. Sepsis progresses into severe sepsis and then ...
Abstract Background: Galectin-3 (Gal-3) is a pleiotropic glycan-binding protein shown to be involved in sepsis and acute kidney injury (AKI). However, its role has never been elucidated in sepsis-associated AKI (S-AKI). ...
Given the myelosuppressive nature of radiation and chemotherapy, anemia, neutropenia, and thrombocytopenia with associated malaise, infection, and bleeding can occur. One of the most serious complications, neutropenic sepsis, is associated with up to 50% mortality rate, average hospital cost of over $49,000, and total expenditures of $1.1 billion ...