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Infection

Category: One-Hour Concurrent Session

The Power of the Microbiome: Its Role in the Development, Maintenance, and Outcomes of Sepsis

(1347019-03) Inflammation and the Microbiome: Age-Related Outcomes in the Geriatric Septic Patient

Monday, January 22, 2024

3:50 PM – 4:05 PM MT

Location: West-301BC

Concurrent Session Faculty(s)

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Vidula Vachharajani, MD, FCCP, FCCM (she/her/hers)

Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Westlake, Ohio

Disclosure(s):

Isaiah Turnbull, MD, PhD, FCCM: No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.

Aging is associated with increased inflammation following sepsis. Does aging effect the microbiome function and post-infection outcomes? This presentation will discuss some of the fundamental age-based differences in the host responses after bacterial and viral infections and will discuss whether these differences are primary or secondary to the increased mortality seen in aged hosts.