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UF Health University of Florida
PRISMAp College of Medicine
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April 2018

The impact of age on the innate immune response and outcomes after severe sepsis/septic shock in trauma and surgical intensive care unit patients.

Abstract Introduction Advancing age is a strong risk factor for adverse outcomes across multiple disease processes. However, septic surgical and trauma patients are unique in they incur two or more inflammatory insults. The effects of advanced age on sepsis pathophysiology and outcomes remain unclear. Methods We performed a single center,…

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Innate Immunity in the Persistent Inflammation, Immunosuppression, and Catabolism Syndrome and Its Implications for Therapy.

Similarities and redundancies in the pathophysiology of patients with sepsis, cancer, and advanced age. Innate Immunity in the Persistent Inflammation, Immunosuppression, and Catabolism Syndrome and Its Implications for Therapy Clinical and technological advances promoting early hemorrhage control and physiologic resuscitation as well as early diagnosis and optimal treatment of sepsis…

Figure showing Similarities and redundancies in the pathophysiology of patients with sepsis, cancer, and advanced age.