Severe sepsis in cirrhosis
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Thierry Gustot; FranΓ§ois Durand; Didier Lebrec; Jean-Louis Vincent; Richard More
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Sepsis is physiologically viewed as a proinflammatory and procoagulant response to invading pathogens. There are three recognized stages in the inflammatory response with progressively increased risk of end-organ failure and death: sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock. Patients with cirrhosis are