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      Host Immune Status in Uraemia

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      Nephron
      S. Karger AG
      Uraemia, Leucocytes, Immunity, Infection, Chronic renal failure

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          Abstract

          Infection often complicates renal failure and frequently causes death, but the association between renal failure, impaired immunity and infection has not been proved. A recent study showed that patients on dialysis did not show an expected leucocytic response to infection, suggesting that the blunted response was evidence of the immunocompromised state of the uraemic patient. In this study, the relationship between leucocytic responses and infectious challenge was investigated in an animal model of chronic renal failure. Bacteraemia, peritonitis and a chronic lung infection were induced in normal and uraemic rats; the leucocytic response was then monitored. In all three infections, the total white blood cell response was significantly less in the uraemic animals. Neutrophil numbers actually increased, but this response was disguised by a pronounced depression in lymphocyte numbers. Our conclusion is that, although the leucocytic response of the uraemic host to infection may be depressed, the changes to individual leucocyte components in the peripheral blood are sufficiently characteristic to provide useful evidence of infection.

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          Journal
          NEF
          Nephron
          10.1159/issn.1660-8151
          Nephron
          S. Karger AG
          1660-8151
          2235-3186
          1985
          1985
          04 December 2008
          : 39
          : 1
          : 21-25
          Affiliations
          Department of Medicine, Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
          Article
          183331 Nephron 1985;39:21–25
          10.1159/000183331
          3881687
          6598cc2b-28bc-4622-8275-85d0c2aeed7c
          © 1985 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          History
          : 24 February 1984
          Page count
          Pages: 5
          Categories
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          Cardiovascular Medicine,Nephrology
          Infection,Chronic renal failure,Uraemia,Immunity,Leucocytes
          Cardiovascular Medicine, Nephrology
          Infection, Chronic renal failure, Uraemia, Immunity, Leucocytes

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