Current concept of abdominal sepsis: WSES position paper

Although sepsis is a systemic process, the pathophysiological cascade of events may vary from region to region. Abdominal sepsis represents the host’s systemic inflammatory response to bacterial peritonitis. It is associated with significant morbidity and mortality rates, and is the second most comm...

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Autores principales: Sartelli, Massimo, Catena, Fausto, Di Saverio, Salomone, Ansaloni, Luca, Malangoni, Mark, Moore, Ernest E, Moore, Frederick A, Ivatury, Rao, Coimbra, Raul, Leppaniemi, Ari, Biffl, Walter, Kluger, Yoram, Fraga, Gustavo P, Ordonez, Carlos A, Marwah, Sanjay, Gerych, Igor, Lee, Jae Gil, Tranà, Cristian, Coccolini, Federico, Corradetti, Francesco, Kirkby-Bott, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24674057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-9-22
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Sumario:Although sepsis is a systemic process, the pathophysiological cascade of events may vary from region to region. Abdominal sepsis represents the host’s systemic inflammatory response to bacterial peritonitis. It is associated with significant morbidity and mortality rates, and is the second most common cause of sepsis-related mortality in the intensive care unit. The review focuses on sepsis in the specific setting of severe peritonitis.

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