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Impaired Immune Response in Elderly Burn Patients: New Insights Into the Immune-senescence Phenotype.
Annals of surgery - 1 Jul 2016
Stanojcic Mile, Chen Peter, Xiu Fangming, Jeschke Marc G
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OBJECTIVE: Comparing the inflammatory and immunological trajectories in burned adults versus burned elderly patients to gain novel insights and better understanding why elderly have poor outcomes. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: Despite receiving the same treatment and clinical consideration as all other burn patients, elderly patients continue to have substantially poorer outcomes compared with adults. In light of an...
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