A Detailed Characterization of the Dysfunctional Immunity and Abnormal Myelopoiesis Induced by Severe Shock and Trauma in the Aged

The elderly are particularly susceptible to trauma, and their outcomes are frequently dismal. Such patients often have complicated clinical courses and ultimately die of infection and sepsis. Recent research has revealed that although elderly subjects have increased baseline inflammation as compared with their younger counterparts, the elderly do not respond to severe infection or injury with an exaggerated inflammatory response. Initial retrospective analysis of clinical data from the Glue Grant trauma database demonstrated that despite a similar frequency, elderly trauma patients have worse outcomes to pneumonia than younger subjects do. Subsequent analysis with a murine trauma model also demonstrated that elderly mice had increased mortality after posttrauma Pseudomonas pneumonia. Blood, bone marrow, and bronchoalveolar lavage sample analyses from juvenile and 20–24-mo-old mice showed that increased mortality to trauma combined with secondary infection in the aged are not due to an exaggerated inflammatory response. Rather, they are due to a failure of bone marrow progenitors, blood neutrophils, and bronchoalveolar lavage cells to initiate and complete an emergency myelopoietic response, engendering myeloid cells that fail to clear secondary infection. In addition, elderly people appeared unable to resolve their inflammatory response to severe injury effectively.

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