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Table 1 Clinical parameters of study groups

From: Low systemic vascular resistance: differential diagnosis and outcome

  

Agea

Temperatureb

 

Group

Number

(mean ± SD)

(mean ± SD)

Clinical diagnoses

Group 1: definitive sepsis

18

52 ± 12

101.5 ± 1.6° F

Pneumonia (10); urinary tract infection (3); abdominal

    

sepsis (2); toxic shock syndrome (1); meningitis (1);

    

cellulitis (1)

Group 2: probable sepsis

4

48 ± 10

99.3 ± 4.17° F

Pneumonia (4)

Group 3: possible sepsis

20

51 ± 12.5

100.3 ± 2.36° F

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (5); idiopathic (3)

Group 4: nonseptic

13

44 ± 17

98.4 ± 1.8°F

Cirrhosis (5); idiopathic (4); pancreatitis (3); adrenal

    

insufficiency (1)

  1. aP > 0.05; bP <0.01, between Group 1 + 2 versus Group 4