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Kellum and his colleagues said their findings indicate that treatments that completely abolish a specific component of the inflammatory response would be ineffective, and possibly even dangerous, because the inflammatory response is needed to deal with a patient's underlying infection.
Instead, better results might be achieved using therapies that tackle the chronic inflammatory response after sepsis and therapies that address multiple components.
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