Emergency Medicine Department, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Immun Ageing. 2013 Jun 6;10(1):21. doi: 10.1186/1742-4933-10-21.
Septic shock is the first cause of death in Intensive Care Units. Despite experimental data showing increased inflammatory response of aged animals following infection, the current accepted hypothesis claims that aged patients are immunocompromised, when compared to young individuals.
Here, we describe a prospective cohort study designed to analyze the immune profile of this population.
Older people are as immunocompetent as the young individual, regarding the cytokines, chemokines and growth factors response to devastating infection.
感染性休克是重症监护病房死亡的首要原因。尽管实验数据表明,感染后老年动物的炎症反应增强,但目前公认的假说认为,与年轻个体相比,老年患者的免疫功能受损。
在这里,我们描述了一项旨在分析该人群免疫特征的前瞻性队列研究。
老年人在细胞因子、趋化因子和生长因子对破坏性感染的反应方面与年轻个体一样具有免疫能力。