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Sepsis is a serious medical condition that occurs when the immune system severely overreacts to an infection in the blood. Untreated sepsis can lead to septic shock. With septic shock, a person ...

"Early on, there was some evidence the virus was damaging the heart, causing an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes in these patients. But no one was looking at the vasculature," the blood ...

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Your blood also contains white blood cells. These larger cells help the body fight infection. And your blood contains cells even smaller than red blood cells called platelets. These help the blood ...

Therefore, definitive diagnosis of bloodstream infection with a common skin contaminant requires multiple positive cultures to exclude the possibility of contamination during collection or ...