🚨"Lymphocytopenia is most often due to #AIDS, and recently #COVID19,... "
🚨"Patients have recurrent viral, bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infections."
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🚨"Patients have recurrent viral, bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infections."
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⚠️The most common causes for acquired lymphocytopenia include:
👉Protein-energy undernutrition
👉#HIV infection
🚨#COVID19
👉Certain other viral infections
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👉Protein-energy undernutrition
👉#HIV infection
🚨#COVID19
👉Certain other viral infections
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Patients with #COVID19 frequently have lymphocytopenia (35 to 83% of patients).
Lower lymphocyte counts portend a poor prognosis and an increased likelihood of requiring ICU admission and of dying from the disease.
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Lower lymphocyte counts portend a poor prognosis and an increased likelihood of requiring ICU admission and of dying from the disease.
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#COVID19 can directly infect lymphocytes, and a cytokine-related apoptosis of the cells is likely.
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