. 2011 Oct 5;42(1):147–157. doi: 10.1002/eji.201141927

Table 2.

Characterization of lymphocytes from blood and pericardial fluid of pericardial TB patients, expressed as percentage (%) median (with IQR) and numbers per 10⁶ cells (with IQR)

	HIV-1 uninfected (n=8)			HIV-1 infected (n=9)			HIV-1 uninfected versus HIV-1 infected

	Blood	Pericardial fluid	p-Value^a)	Blood	Pericardial fluid	p-Value^b)	p-Value^c)
							Blood	Pericardial fluid
% Lymphocytes (FSC/SSC)	11.2 (6.5–31.6)	33.3 (18.2–48.1)	0.078	12.9 (11.1–22.6)	23.8 (18.4–29.9)	0.437	0.721	0.279
% CD3⁺ of Lymphocytes	53.3 (29.6–76.6)	86.9 (72.6–90.5)	0.021^d)	58.8 (53.6–83.6)	91.2 (79.3–96.3)	0.094	0.382	0.065
Number CD3⁺ of Lymphocytes per 10⁶	51 133 (28 137–290 146)	198 138 (48 113–434 517)	0.148	147 107 (68 582–198 354)	185 074 (145 421–284 391)	0.094	0.345	0.950
% CD4⁺ of Lymphocytes	36.2 (14.3–44.8)	48.3 (16.9–62.0)	0.195	27.8 (12.2–40.7)	30.9 (19.6–50.5)	1.0	0.442	0.481
Number of CD4⁺ of Lymphocytes per 10⁶	35 281 (30 385–51 313)	140 562 (52 004–353 660)	0.023^d)	26 598 (11 412–107 757)	36 190 (20 731–138 572)	0.297	0.613	0.121
% CD8⁺ of Lymphocytes	19.8 (14.5–41.1)	28.1 (20.0–44.2)	0.641	27.1 (17.9–47.8)	34.7 (22.5–55.2)	0.164	0.505	0.481
Number of CD8⁺ of Lymphocyte per 10⁶	1956 (1829–3352)	2950 (1224–18 104)	0.219	2486 (145 4801)	2721 (2019–6399)	0.461	0.694	0.867
% CD4⁺ HLA-DR⁺	15.1 (8–19.4)	14.9 (12.3–49.7)	0.195	6.7 (4.8–15.3)	15.9 (4.9–34.7)	0.148	0.083	0.798
% CD4⁺ CD71⁺	12.8 (8.5–16.1)	10.4 (4.3–20.1)	0.844	7.6 (3.0–11.9)	11.2 (7.2–32.0)	0.023^d)	0.130	0.505
% CD³⁻CD56⁺CD16+ NK cells	14.1 (6.4–27.1)	1.7 (0.04–6.7)	0.035^d)	6.2 (2.6–27)	6.4 (0.7–19.9)	0.312	0.673	0.297

^a)

Indicating differences between blood and pericardial fluid of the HIV-1-uninfected patients, using the Wilcoxon-matched pairs test.

^b)

Indicating differences between blood and pericardial fluid of the HIV-1 infected patients, using the Wilcoxon-matched pairs test.

^c)

Indicating differences between HIV-1-uninfected and HIV-1-infected patients, using the Mann–Whitney U test.

^d)

Gray shadow represents stastically significant difference.