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01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Different correlations between lymphocyte subsets from patients with intra-abdominal sepsis and pneumonia-derived sepsis
Authors:
TS Skirecki, UZ Zielińska-Borkowska, MZ Złotorowicz, JK Kawiak, GH Hoser
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
Although there has been progress in understanding the immunopathology of sepsis, the mortality rates remain high and there is still a lack of effective immunomodulatory therapies. Possible reasons include heterogeneity of septic patients and inefficiency of methods of monitoring the immune system status [
1]. Most of both the experimental and clinical studies do not distinguish sepsis based on the primary sites of infection. Therefore, we studied the differences in the cellular immune response during sepsis originating from pneumonia and peritonitis. …