Medicina: Ematologia: Talassemie e trapianto del midollo osseo
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| sepsis |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun
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| Grammatical label |
Countable
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| Definition |
Commonly called a “blood stream infection.” The presence of bacteria (bacteremia) or other infectious organisms or their toxins in the blood (septicemia) or in other tissue of the body. Sepsis may be associated with clinical symptoms of systemic (bodywide) illness, such as fever, chills, malaise (generally feeling “rotten”), low blood pressure, and mental status changes. Sepsis can be a serious situation, a life threatening disease calling for urgent and comprehensive care. Treatment depends on the type of infection, but usually begins with antibiotics or similar medications. Also known as blood poisoning, septicemia
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| Definition source |
MedicineNet. Medterms Medical Dictionary
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| Context |
Sepsis is characterized by a high number of activated neutrophils and in RA large amounts of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) infiltrate joint synovial fluid.
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| Context source |
Uguccioni, M., et al. (1993). ‘Elevated interleukin-8 serum concentrations in beta-thalassemia and graft-versus-host disease’. Blood 81(9):2252-6. (RISCEN80)
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| Synonym |
Blood stream infection, blood poisoning, septicemia
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| Subject field |
Haemopoiesis
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| Sub-field (level 1) |
Thalassemias
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| Sub-field (level 2) |
Therapies
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| Related concept |
Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, follow-up, conditioning regimen, engraftment, Graft-Versus-Host Disease, rejection
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| it |
Sepsi
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| Reliability code |
3
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