Why Septic Patients Remain Sick After Hospital Discharge?

Sepsis is well known to cause a high patient death rate (up to 50%) during the intensive care unit (ICU) stay. In addition, sepsis survival patients also exhibit a very high death rate after hospital discharge compared to patients with any other disease. The addressed question is then: why septic pa...

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Main Authors: Raquel Bragante Gritte, Talita Souza-Siqueira, Rui Curi, Marcel Cerqueira Cesar Machado, Francisco Garcia Soriano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2020.605666/full