LAUSR.org creates dashboard-style pages of related content for over 1.5 million academic articles. Sign Up to like articles & get recommendations!

Sepsis and Intestinal Microvascular Endothelial Dysfunction

Photo by impulsq from unsplash

Sepsis is a major life‐threatening health‐care problem. According to statistics, there are 20–30 million new cases of sepsis worldwide annually, which causes equivalent deaths from acute myocardial infarction and kills… Click to show full abstract

Sepsis is a major life‐threatening health‐care problem. According to statistics, there are 20–30 million new cases of sepsis worldwide annually, which causes equivalent deaths from acute myocardial infarction and kills more people than breast cancer, stroke, and AIDS combined. About 41% of cases of sepsis progress to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), resulting in mortality as high as 30–50%.[1] We believe that excessive inflammation leads to a series of changes of endothelium‐associated proteins and molecules, which eventually results in coagulation disorder, overactivation of inflammatory response, and vascular leakage.

Keywords: sepsis; intestinal microvascular; dysfunction; microvascular endothelial; endothelial dysfunction; sepsis intestinal

Journal Title: Chinese Medical Journal
Year Published: 2017

Link to full text (if available)


Share on Social Media:                               Sign Up to like & get
recommendations!

Related content

More Information              News              Social Media              Video              Recommended



                Click one of the above tabs to view related content.