Endotracheal aspirates contain a limited number of lower respiratory tract immune cells

Crit Care. 2021 Jan 6;25(1):14. doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-03432-1.

Authors

Marika Orlov¹, Eric D Morrell^{2

3}, Victoria Dmyterko³, Jessica A Hamerman⁴, Mark M Wurfel³, Carmen Mikacenic⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterans Affairs, Puget Sound, Hospitalist and Specialty Medicine, Seattle, WA, 98108, USA. morlov@uw.edu.
² Department of Veterans Affairs, Puget Sound, Hospitalist and Specialty Medicine, Seattle, WA, 98108, USA.
³ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98104, USA.
⁴ Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
B-Lymphocytes / cytology
Body Fluids / cytology*
Female
Humans
Lymphocytes / cytology
Macrophages, Alveolar / cytology
Male
Middle Aged
Monocytes / cytology
Paracentesis / methods
Respiratory System / cytology*
Respiratory System / physiopathology
T-Lymphocytes / cytology

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