Patent ID: 8415117
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: A61B,A61P,G01N,G16H,Y02A

Abstract:
1. A method for assessing prognosis in an individual suffering from alcoholic cirrhosis, which method comprises: (a) (i) contacting a plasma sample from the individual with a population of neutrophils not from the individual to produce a test population of neutrophils, and (b) assessing the ability of the test population of neutrophils of (a)(i) to phagocytose; and (c) comparing said ability of said test population to phagocytose with the ability of said control sample of neutrophils of (a)(ii) to phagocytose; wherein a lower level of neutrophil phagocytosis in said test population, as compared with the level of neutrophil phagocytosis in said control sample is indicative of a prognosis of at least one condition selected from the group consisting of organ failure and mortality.