Male Gender Is a Risk Factor for Major Infections After Surgery
Open Access
- 1 September 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 134 (9) , 935-940
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.134.9.935
Abstract
DESPITE improvements in technology and critical care, sepsis and subsequent multiple organ failure (MOF) continue to be the most common cause of late postinjury death in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU).1,2 Several studies have documented depressed cell-mediated and humoral immune function following trauma and hemorrhage.3-5 This immune suppression may, in part, reflect a compensatory anti-inflammatory response attempting to control potentially destructive postinjury hyperinflammation.Keywords
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