Post-Mortem Investigations for the Diagnosis of Sepsis: A Review of Literature.

作者: Chiara Stassi , Cristina Mondello , Gennaro Baldino , Elvira Ventura Spagnolo

DOI: 10.3390/DIAGNOSTICS10100849

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摘要: To date, sepsis is still one of the most important causes of death due to the difficulties concerning the achievement of a correct diagnosis. As well as in a clinical context, also in a medico-legal setting the diagnosis of sepsis can reveal challenging due to the unspecificity of the signs detected during autopsies, especially when no ante-mortem clinical data, laboratory, and cultural results are available. Thus, a systematic review of literature was performed to provide an overview of the main available and updated forensic tools for the …

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