Lymphocyte subsets early predict mortality in a large series of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Spain.
CONCLUSION: Reduced counts of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells with proportional expansion of NK lymphocytes at admission were prognostic factors of death in this Spanish series. In COVID-19 patients with normal levels of lymphocytes or mild lymphopenia, imbalanced lymphocyte subpopulations were early markers of in-hospital mortality.
PMID: 33187018 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical and Developmental Immunology - Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Cantenys-Molina S, Fernández-Cruz E, Francos P, Lopez Bernaldo de Quirós JC, Muñoz P, Gil-Herrera J Tags: Clin Exp Immunol Source Type: research
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