SARS: understanding the coronavirus: Apoptosis may explain lymphopenia of SARS
- 11 September 2003
- Vol. 327 (7415) , 620
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.327.7415.620-b
Abstract
# Apoptosis may explain lymphopenia of SARS {#article-title-2} EDITOR—In their review of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) Wong et al emphasise lymphopenia as a hallmark feature.1 Panesar suggested that glucocorticoids or stimulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis leads to lymphocyte margination and that patients without lymphopenia may have adrenal insufficiency.2 Apoptosis may also explain the lymphopenia of …Keywords
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