Summary: Patients recovering from severe spinal cord injuries are more susceptible to immune deficiencies.
Such deficiencies, known as spinal cord injury-induced immune deficiency syndrome, may expose patients to life-threatening infections. This immune deficiency is closely tied to the severity of the spinal cord injury and can undermine the immune system further.
The research could pave the way for better patient care by identifying highly immune-suppressed patients and devising new treatments to curb infection susceptibility.
