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Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Table 3 Numbers of leucocytes per mL of peripheral blood

From: Impairment of neutrophilic glucocorticoid receptor function in patients treated with steroids for septic shock

 

Patients

Healthy subjects

 

On admission (T0)

After recovery (T4)

 
 

No GC

GC

No GC

GC

 

CD3+ T lymphocytes

2.3 (2.6)***

3.6 (4.9)***

11 (4.6)

9.4 (6.7)*

18 (7.9)

CD4+ T lymphocytes

1.1 (1.1)***

2.3 (4.3)***

5.1 (1.4)

4.3 (3.9)*

10 (4.4)

CD8+ T Lymphocytes

1.0 (1.1)***

1.3 (1.8)***

4.1 (2.7)

4.4 (5.6)

6.5 (3.2)

B lymphocytes

1.6 (2.7)

1.0 (1.7)

1.9 (2.0)

0.6 (0.7)*

2.0 (1.3)

NK cells

0.8 (1.4)

0.8 (0.7)

3.6 (2.3)

0.8 (0.8)

2.1 (2.0)

Monocytes

5.7 (3.5)

1.9 (1.8)***a

3.0 (2.1)

3.8 (2.5)

5.3 (2.5)

Neutrophils

145 (63)***

76 (66)a

28 (8.3)

41 (29)

51 (23)

Eosinophils

0.9 (1.2)

0.8 (2.2)*

1.8 (0.4)

2.0 (1.4)

2.9 (2.6)

  1. Numbers are ×105, given as mean (SD)
  2. aDifference between patients treated with glucocorticoids (GC) and patients not treated with glucocorticoids at any time (No GC), p ≤ 0.05
  3. *Difference between patients and healthy subjects (HS), p ≤ 0.05, ***p < 0.001
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