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severe sepsis

A condition defined clinically as 'Sepsis associated with organ dysfunction, hypotension, or hypoperfusion abnormalities (which include) …lactic acidosis, oliguria, or an acute alteration in mental status; SS is part of a continuum of a biologic inflammatory response to infection that evolve toward septic shock. See Sepsis, Septic shock, SIRS.

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