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Descriptor English: Endotoxemia
Descriptor Spanish: Endotoxemia
Descriptor endotoxemia
Scope note: Enfermedad caracterizada por la presencia de endotoxinas en la sangre. Si la endotoxemia se debe a bacterias bacilares gramnegativas se puede producir un choque.
Descriptor Portuguese: Endotoxemia
Descriptor French: Endotoxémie
Entry term(s): Endotoxemias
Tree number(s): C01.757.100.275
C01.861.375
C23.550.470.790.500.100.275
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019446
Scope note: A condition characterized by the presence of ENDOTOXINS in the blood. On lysis, the outer cell wall of gram-negative bacteria enters the systemic circulation and initiates a pathophysiologic cascade of pro-inflammatory mediators.
Annotation: coordinate with specific bacterial infection heading or specific bacterium if precoordinated bacterial infection heading is not in MeSH; do not use /blood to cover -emia
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Endotoxins (1966-1996)
Septicemia (1966-1996)
Shock, Septic (1968-1996)
Toxemia (1966-1996)
Public MeSH Note: 97
History Note: 97
Related: Shock, Septic MeSH
DeCS ID: 32929
Unique ID: D019446
NLM Classification: WC 240
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Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/10
Revision Date: 2006/07/05
Endotoxemia - Preferred
Concept UI M0028934
Scope note A condition characterized by the presence of ENDOTOXINS in the blood. On lysis, the outer cell wall of gram-negative bacteria enters the systemic circulation and initiates a pathophysiologic cascade of pro-inflammatory mediators.
Preferred term Endotoxemia
Entry term(s) Endotoxemias



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