Clinical Study
Immune Dysregulation after Cardiothoracic Surgery and Incidental Thymectomy: Maintenance of Regulatory T Cells despite Impaired Thymopoiesis
Table 3
Symptoms reported by organ or system (number of subjects).
| | Allergic | Gastrointestinal | Respiratory | Joints | Endocrine | Skin |
| | No surgery ( with CHD) | 1 (10%) | 1 (10%) | 0 | 1 (10%) | 0 | 0 | | Any surgery () | 13 (27%) | 12 (25%) | 8 (17%) | 13 (27%) | 4 (8%) | 15 (31%) | | High TREC () | 9 (29%) | 9 (29%) | 3 (10%) | 8 (26%) | 3 (10%) | 7 (23%) | | Low TREC () | 4 (24%) | 3 (18%) | 5 (29%) | 5 (29%) | 1 (6%) | 7 (41%)* |
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versus No Surgery (Fisher exact test).
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