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SUBMITTER: Stearns-Kurosawa DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3684427 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stearns-Kurosawa Deborah J DJ Osuchowski Marcin F MF Valentine Catherine C Kurosawa Shinichiro S Remick Daniel G DG
Annual review of pathology 20110101
Sepsis is a serious clinical condition that represents a patient's response to a severe infection and has a very high mortality rate. Normal immune and physiologic responses eradicate pathogens, and the pathophysiology of sepsis is due to the inappropriate regulation of these normal reactions. In an ideal scenario, the first pathogen contact with the inflammatory system should eliminate the microbe and quickly return the host to homeostasis. The septic response may accelerate due to continued ac ...[more]