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multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

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Also known as MODS, multiple organ failure, MOF, multisystem organ failure, MSOF, multi-system organ failure, multi system organ failure, MOF ; multiple organ failure

altered organ function in an acutely ill patient requiring medical intervention to achieve homeostasis.

Key facts

Other names
Total organ failure, multisystem organ failure, multiple organ failure
Specialty
Intensive care medicine
Symptoms
Include, but not limited to: confusion, loss of appetite, fatigue, fever, irregular heartbeat, tachypnea
Causes
Infection, injury, hypermetabolism
Treatment
Treating the underlying cause
Prognosis
Case fatality rate 30–100% depending on the number of organs that fail

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Research

28,226 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is altered organ function in an acutely ill patient requiring immediate medical intervention.

There are different stages of organ dysfunction for certain different organs, both in acute and in chronic onset, whether or not there are one or more organs affected. Each stage of dysfunction (whether it be the heart, lung, liver, or kidney) has defined parameters, in terms of laboratory values based on blood and other tests, as to what it is (each of these organs' levels of failure is divided into stage I, II, III, IV, and V). The word "failure" is commonly used to refer to the later stages, especially IV and V, when artificial support usually becomes necessary to sustain life; the damage may or may not be fully or partially reversible.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “multiple organ dysfunction syndrome” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.