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Critical Care April 2003 Vol 7 No 2 Vallet Review Bench-to-bedside review: Endothelial cell dysfunction in severe sepsis: a role in organ dysfunction? Beno?t Vallet Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care and Department of Pharmacology, University Hospital, Lille, France Correspondence: Benoit Vallet, bvallet@chru-lille.fr Published online: 6 January 2003 Critical Care 2003, 7:130-138 (DOI 10.1186/cc1864) This article is online at /content/7/2/130 ? 2003 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1364-8535; Online ISSN 1466-609X) Abstract During the past decade a unifying hypothesi