Pneumonia [4,9] and septicemia are still the principle causes of the high mortality in acute renal failure. Moreover, according to the EDTA report, 19% of chronic intermittent dialysis patients die from infection [17]. The resulting conclusion, that cellular and humoral immune responses are suppressed in renal insufficiency, is further supported by experimental evidence.
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H Dobbelstein (2008) studied this question.