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Infections > Sepsis
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Inflammation > Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome > Sepsis
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Shock > Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome > Sepsis

Preferred term

Sepsis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Bloodstream Infection
  • Bloodstream Infections
  • Infection, Bloodstream

Note

  • SEPSIS SYNDROME see SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME is also available

Scope note

  • Systemic inflammatory response syndrome with a proven or suspected infectious etiology. When sepsis is associated with organ dysfunction distant from the site of infection, it is called severe sepsis. When sepsis is accompanied by HYPOTENSION despite adequate fluid infusion, it is called SEPTIC SHOCK.

History note

  • 1995

In other languages

  • sepsis

    Finnish

  • määrittämätön septikemia
  • ospecificerad septikemi
  • plaga septica
  • sepsikset
  • septicaemia non specificata
  • septichaemia non specificata
  • septikemia
  • septinen sokki
  • septisk chock
  • verenmyrkytys
  • Sepsis

    Swedish

  • Blodförgiftning
  • Pyemi
  • Septikemi
  • Svår sepsis

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018805

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