Clinical review Immunodepression in the surgical patient and increased susceptibility to infection.docVIP

Critical Care August 2002 Vol 6 No 4 Angele and Faist Review Clinical review: Immunodepression in the surgical patient and increased susceptibility to infection Martin K Angele and Eugen Faist Department of Surgery, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany Correspondence: Eugen Faist, faist@gch.med.uni-muenchen.de Published online: 24 May 2002 Critical Care 2002, 6:298-305 This article is online at /content/6/4/298 ? 2002 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1364-8535; Online ISSN 1466-609X) Abstract Several studies indicate that organ failure is the leading