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Clinical assessment of host defense
J Tellado-Rodriguez1, N V Christou
1Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The Surgical Clinics of North America
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
Host defense mechanisms are a determinant of infection. Anergy in surgical patients is a signal of broadly based immune deficits, which include abnormalities in specific and local nonspecific antibacterial defenses and related life-threatening sepsis. Analysis of these abnormalities and other risk factors allows us to generate a long-predictive equation of individual probability of death.