Letter

CD4+ T-lymphocyte alterations in trauma patients

Aurélie Gouel-Chéron1,2, Fabienne Venet2,3, Bernard Allaouchiche1,2 and Guillaume Monneret2,3*

Author Affiliations

1 Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Service de réanimation, Place d'Arsonval, 69437 Lyon, France

2 Hospices Civils de Lyon/Université Lyon I, EAM 4174, 69008 Lyon, France

3 Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Place d'Arsonval, 69437 Lyon, France

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Critical Care 2012, 16:432 doi:10.1186/cc11376


See related research by Heffernan et al., http://ccforum.com/content/16/1/R12

Published: 26 June 2012

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

We read with great interest the article by Heffernan and colleagues reporting an association between persistent lymphopaenia and increasing mortality in trauma patients [1]. We would like to provide some additional data obtained in a similar cohort of patients.