Endocrine Abstracts

Sepsis represents the host’s systemic inflammatory response to a severe infection. It is a common condition in hospital settings and is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Since1992 the knowledge about sepsis epidemiology has clearly improved. There are differences in epidemiologic data about sepsis identification in different countries. The aim of our study is to make a panoramic view of sepsis at the service of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Center, ‘Mother Teresa’, Tirane, Albania during January 2009 to December 2013 and to highlight its accompanying diseases.

Material and methods: In our study we included patient over >14 years old, since we are a service for adult patients only. Our study was a retrospective one. A septic patient was defined based on the 2001 sepsis conference definition. Study period was from January 2009 to December 2013.

Results: During our study time from 2009–2013 we had 707 patients with sepsis. The mean age was 50.3879 years old and SDEV resulted ±19.59 years old. The most affected age resulted 55–75 years old. Comorbidities in patients with sepsis were as below: Diabetes mellitus 5.2%, HIV/AIDS 4.5%, malignancies 1.6%, alcoholic cirrhosis 1.2%, autoimmune diseases 0.99%, post-transplant patients 0.84%, and homeopathies 0.7%.

Conclusions: In nowadays sepsis definition is modified. However its concept remains the same. The sepsis cases are increasing. The age and other comorbidities are risk factors that play an important role in the increasing of morbidity and mortality. Diabetes mellitus resulted as a major comorbidity in patient with sepsis.