Immune profiles and clinical outcomes between sepsis patients with or without active cancer requiring admission to intensive care units.

Immunoparalysis was observed in both patients with cancer and sepsis. In cancer patients, Cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4 and programmed cell death protein 1/programmed death-ligand 1 axis are two key components of immunoparalysis. Several emerging therapies against these two axes gained significan...

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Main Authors: Wen-Feng Fang, Yu-Mu Chen, Chiung-Yu Lin, Kuo-Tung Huang, Hsu-Ching Kao, Ying-Tang Fang, Chi-Han Huang, Ya-Ting Chang, Yi-His Wang, Chin-Chou Wang, Meng-Chih Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5503229?pdf=render