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A 38-year-old right-handed woman presented to the hospital with subtle right facial palsy and global aphasia of 4 days' duration. She found that she had aphasia when she suddenly woke up at midnight and reported a headache lasting for several hours. ⋯ She was not taking any medication and was a nondrinker and nonsmoker. She had no other significant medical background and family history.
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There has been considerable controversy between sepsis-1 and sepsis-3 criteria. ⋯ Sepsis-3 diagnostic criteria narrow the sepsis population at the expense of sensitivity, and the resulting false negatives may delay disease diagnosis. It may be inappropriate to compare the prediction performance of SIRS and SOFA criteria when sepsis-3 is defined.