Systemic immune responses in patients with spine surgery related infections
Pia Fehrenbach, Siegmund Lang, Maja Gocević, Puk Kwant, Daniel Haschtmann, Tamas F. Fekete, Ursula Menzel, Esther C. de Jong, T. Fintan Moriarty, Sibylle Grad, Markus Loibl · 2026
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Pia Fehrenbach and colleagues profile blood immune cells in patients infected after spine surgery in 2026 work. Infections at the surgical site are a feared outcome, yet the body-wide immune reply in spine cases is poorly charted. Better maps could yield tests or treatments.
The team compared 17 infected patients with 20 matched patients who healed cleanly. Deep cell profiling found 46 cell clusters, and 30 differed between the groups. Infected patients carried fewer natural killer cells and fewer of one dendritic cell type. Several activated T cell types ran higher instead. Certain cell counts separated the groups well enough to hint at a blood test for early detection.
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| CREATOR | Pia Fehrenbach, Siegmund Lang, Maja Gocević, Puk Kwant, Daniel Haschtmann, Tamas F. Fekete, Ursula Menzel, Esther C. de Jong, T. Fintan Moriarty, Sibylle Grad, Markus Loibl |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |