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However, this cytokine release can become uncontrolled — known as a cytokine storm — and lead to detrimental effects such as leakage from capillaries, tissue oedema, organ failure and shock.

Defining hypercytokinemia Also called the ‘cytokine storm’, hypercytokinemia is a condition where too many cytokines are ...