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Patient cytokine response in transfusion-associated sepsis
S K McAllister1, L A Bland, M J Arduino
1Hospital Infectious Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333.
Infection and Immunity
|May 1, 1994
Abstract:
Cytokine concentrations in plasma from patients transfused with packed erythrocytes contaminated with gram-negative bacilli were measured. Cytokine concentrations in posttransfusion plasma were significantly elevated. A difference in cytokine patterns between survivors and a nonsurvivor was observed.