As far as i know some of the cytokines involved in the sepsis response are structurally similar to platelet growing factors, that's why your patients as equal to ours here in mexico sometimes have high platelet counts. But this is not necessarily related to sepsis severity. Hope you find it useful
Giussepe Pérez Pediatrics Hermosillo, México El 08/03/2012, a las 15:29, [email protected] escribió: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm a medical Intern from Colombia, I have a question and it would be great > if anybody can help me out in solving it, so here it goes: In our septic > patients we often see that even if they not have leukocytosis or leukopenia, > some of them have thrombocytosis, how do you interpret this finding? Could > this be a marker of severity of the ongoing infectious disease? > > Thank you, > > Melissa Giraldo Duque > Medical Intern > Pontificia Universidad Javeriana > Colombia > [email protected] > Twitter @MeliGiD > Enviado desde un dispositivo BlackBerry® de Tigo > _______________________________________________ > Sepsisgroups mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org > _______________________________________________ Sepsisgroups mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
