Do not get sick when you are sick: The impact of comorbid conditions

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2147-2148

  Remick, Daniel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Acute pneumonia; Immunocompromise; Infectious complications

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ANIMAL MODEL; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG INFECTION; NEUTROPHIL; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SEPSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; PANCREATITIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 5644275041     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000142943.99322.BE     Document Type: Editorial

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