• Crit Care · Aug 2004

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    Nosocomial infections and immunity: lesson from brain-injured patients.

    • Tomasz Dziedzic, Agnieszka Slowik, and Andrzej Szczudlik.
    • Department of Neurology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. dziedzictom@mediclub.pl
    • Crit Care. 2004 Aug 1; 8 (4): 266270266-70.

    AbstractOf brain-injured patients admitted to intensive care units, a significant number acquires nosocomial infections. Increased susceptibility to infectious agents could, at least partly, be due to transient immunodepression triggered by brain damage. Immune deficiency in patients with severe brain injury primarily involves T cell dysfunction. However, humoral and phagocytic deficiencies are also detectable. Activation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis and the sympathetic nervous system plays a crucial role in brain-mediated immunodepression. In this review we discuss the role of immunodepression in the development of nosocomial infections and clinical trials on immunomodulation in brain-injured patients with hospital-acquired infections.

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