Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University
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Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao · Aug 2008
[Monocyte human leukocyte antigen-DR expression in elderly patients with sepsis].
To investigate the changes of human leukocyte antigen DR (HLA-DR) expression in the monocytes of elderly patients with sepsis. ⋯ Although with multiple organ diseases and repeated or long-term hospitalization, the non-septic elderly patients do not show lowered expression of HLA-DR. In the elderly patients with sepsis and severe sepsis, HLA-DR expression is not a sensitive index, but obviously lowered HLA-DR expression may serve as a specific indicator in elderly patients with septic shock.