Role of the eosinophil count in discriminating the severity of community-acquired pneumonia in HIV-infected patients 英文参考文献.docVIP

Available online /content/12/4/425 Letter Role of the eosinophil count in discriminating the severity of community-acquired pneumonia in HIV-infected patients Rafel Perelló1, Oscar Miró1, Josep M Miró2 and Asunción Moreno2 1Emergency Department, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques Agustí Pi i Sunyer, University of Barcelona, Villarroel 170, 08036 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 2Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques Agustí Pi i Sunyer, University of Barcelona, Villarroel 170, 08036 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Corresponding author: Rafel Perelló, rperello@clinic.ub.es Published: 13 August 2008 Critical Care 2008, 12:4?? (doi:10.1186/cc6971) This article is online at /content/12/4/425 ? 2008 BioMed Central Ltd See related research by Abidi et al., /content/12/2/R59 Abidi and colleagues recently reported that eosinopenia con- stitutes a good diagnostic marker in distinguishing between noninfection and infection, but is a moderate marker in consecutively included 137 HIV-infected patients with a firm diagnosis of CAP based on Infectious Diseases Society of America criteria, whose clinical, analytical and outcome data were prospectively recorded. We split our series into different groups depending on the patient requiring ICU admission (n = 29) or not requiring ICU admission (n = 108), and depending on inhospital patient survival (n = 132) or inhospital death (n = 5). discriminating between systemic inflammatory response syndrome and infection in newly admitted critically ill patients [1]. They propose that eosinopenia may become a helpful clinical tool in intensive care unit (ICU) practices. They included different types of severe infections, however, and therefore the utility of eosinopenia for a particular kind of infection is not approached. The results are pre