Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines during Immune Stimulation: Modulation of Iron Status and Red Blood Cell Profile

Table 1

Diagnosis and HIV status of the patients (*elevated CRP).

Patient	Diagnosis	HIV
1*	Pneumonia and sepsis, Escherichia coli and urinary tract infection and acute renal failure	pos
2*	Heart failure and megaloblastic anaemia and pernicious	neg
3*	Anaemia and idiopathic thrombocytic purpura and acute haemolytic anaemia versus disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, post mortem	pos
4*	Carcinoid cancer and pneumonia and metastasis to the brain	neg
5*	Idiopathic vasculitis and pancytopenia questioning antiphospholipid syndrome and uterine mass	neg
6	Malaria and idiopathic thrombocytic purpura	neg
7*	Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease and hypersplenism and TB	neg
8*	Lung cancer and acute renal failure and pneumonia	neg
9*	Pneumonia, Escherichia coli	pos
10	Idiopathic thrombocytic purpura and iron deficient anaemia and questioning systemic lupus erythematosus	neg
11*	Retroviral disease and renal failure	pos
12	Metastatic breast cancer	neg
13*	Pneumonia and confusion	pos
14*	Pulmonary TB and effusion	pos
15	Megaloblastic anaemia	neg
16	Anaemia due to blood loss	neg
17	Retroviral disease and anaemia and Kaposi's sarcoma and previous pulmonary TB	pos
18*	Antiphospholipid syndrome and haemolytic anaemia	neg
19*	Retroviral disease and bicytopenia and mycobacterium avium complex	pos
20*	Retroviral disease and anaemia and dilated cardiomyopathy and antiphospholipid syndrome and TB and thrombosis	pos
21*	Retroviral disease and TB and sepsis and anaemia and ascitis	pos
22*	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and liver and kidney failure and pelagra and sepsis and ethanol abuse	neg
23*	Retroviral disease and pneumonia and pancytopenia	pos
24	Idiopathic thrombocytic purpura	neg
25	Retroviral disease and diabetes mellitus and heart failure and obesity and splenomegaly and lymphadenopathy and TB, bone marrow	pos
26*	Ethanol abuse and radial fracture and pulmonary TB and bradycardia and primary hypertension, increase calcium	neg
27	Massive splenomegaly and pancytopenia	neg
28*	Megaloblastic anaemia and syphilis	neg
29*	Delerium and TB and calcified nodes, post mortem = miliary TB	neg
30*	OD and thrombocytopenia and macrocytosis and ethanol abuse	neg
31*	Retroviral disease and pulmonary TB and pancytopenia	pos
32	Nephritis: hypertension, edema, proteinuria	neg
33*	Pancytopenia and ascitis and TB and proteinuria and urinary tract infection and sepsis, ICU	neg
34*	Retroviral disease and Hodgkin's disease and TB	pos
35	Hypertension and diabetes mellitus and leucocytosis, persistent	neg
36*	Retroviral disease on HAART and pulmonary TB	pos
37	Retroviral disease and idiopathic thrombocytic purpura-immune, normal spleen	pos
38	Megaloblastic anaemia and hypothyroidism	neg
39	Anaemia	neg
40*	Anaemia and pyrexia and miliary TB, bone marrow culture	pos
41	Pancytopenia and idiopathic thrombocytic purpura	pos
42	Iron-deficient anaemia	neg
43	Iron-deficient anaemia and peptic ulcer disease and pneumonia, Staphylococcus aureus	neg
44*	Idiopathic 4-limb African gangrene	neg
45	Retroviral disease and pneumonia and pancytopenia	pos
46*	Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and uterine mass	neg
47*	Retroviral disease and pancytopenia and pneumonia	pos
48	Idiopathic thrombocytic purpura and bicytopenia	neg