[The clinical significance of leucocytosis and increase in interleukin content in acute mountain sickness complicated with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome].

Objective: To study the role of white blood cell (WBC) and interleukins (ILs) in acute mountain sickness (AMS) complicated with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS).

Methods: Three thousand one hundred and eighty-four patients suffering from severe AMC in the past 50 years were surveyed with questionnaire. Correlation analysis was done to explore the relationship between differential count of WBC and elevation of ILs contents and MODS.