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Can sepsis affect my skin?

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Dr. William Walsh answered

Specializes in Addiction Medicine

Yes: Sepsis can affect any organ... But sepsis is a syndrome rather than a specific disease. The skin can be directly affected by the infection (cellulitis or clostridium), by a toxin from a bacterium (staph or strep, for example), by low blood pressure causing limb ischemia, or by blood clots or thrombi caused by the sepsis syndrome.

Answered 7/21/2012

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Yes : Seeding of the skin resulting in abscesses and ulcers.

Answered 4/15/2019

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