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Original communication| Volume 81, ISSUE 3, P310-313, March 1977

Remote organ failure: A valid sign of occult intra-abdominal infection

  • Hiram C. Polk Jr.
    Correspondence
    Reprint requests: Hiram C. Polk, Jr., M.D., Department of Surgery, Health Sciences Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky. 40201.
    Affiliations
    From the Price Institute of Surgical Research and the Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, Louisville, Ky. USA
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  • Charles L. Shields
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    From the Price Institute of Surgical Research and the Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, Louisville, Ky. USA
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.5555/uri:pii:0039606077902355
Remote organ failure: A valid sign of occult intra-abdominal infection
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      Abstract

      Remote or local infection appears to be causally associated with major organ failure in some surgical patients. Experience with the patients described suggests that the converse relationship may be clinically useful: organ failure may indicate the presence of otherwise occult intra-abdominal infection in postoperative patients and trauma victims. Support of organ function without definitive correction of underlying infection is only pallative.
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      Publication history

      Accepted: May 3, 1976

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.5555/uri:pii:0039606077902355

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      © 1977 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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