Is eosinopenia a reliable marker of sepsis?
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* Corresponding author: Alex Smithson asa30412@hotmail.com
1 Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
2 Emergency Department, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
3 Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
Critical Care 2009, 13:409 doi:10.1186/cc7877
Published: 1 June 2009First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
We have read with interest the article by Abidi and colleagues [1] in which the authors point out that eosinopenia could be useful to differentiate between noninfection and infection in patients recently admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU). The association of eosinopenia with infections is not new and has been described previously [2].