Matheus Natan Marques de Oliveira

Comorbidities and Inflammation: How Chronic Diseases Prime the Host Response in Sepsis

Considered a global public health priority, sepsis is characterized by life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Its heterogeneous clinical presentation arises, in part, from pre-existing chronic conditions such as hypertension, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, alcohol exposur...