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[Systemic diseases treated by corticoids, plasma exchange and cyclophosphamide: infectious complications and
C Ginsburg1, L Guillevin, F Sauvaget
1Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny.
Annales De Medecine Interne
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
The sporadic observation of pneumocystosis in patients suffering from systemic diseases led us to investigate the role of treatment-induced lymphopenia, affecting in particular CD4 cells. We report the results of a retrospective study on 16 patients in whom infectious complications were sought and correlated with the number of lymphocytes.