fever and neutropenia
Fever and neutropenia in the pediatric patient, a different perspective between latin america and europe
... of neutropenia and fever, so much so that they have been included in global assessment scales as predictive factors to the response to ...Conclusion: Fever and neutropenia (FN) in pediatric ...
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Fluconazole for empiric antifungal therapy in cancer patients with fever and neutropenia
... prolonged fever and neutropenia has been demonstrated to be efficacious, and it has become the standard of practice ...prolonged fever and neutropenia ...
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External Validation of Six Pediatric Fever and Neutropenia Clinical Decision Rules
... chemotherapy-induced neutropenia, heralded by fever, remains an unavoidable complication of the treatment of childhood ...for fever and neutropenia (FN) that are tailored to an individual’s ...
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Assessment of procalcitonin as a diagnostic marker of infection in pediatrics with cancer complicated by fever and neutropenia
... with fever and neutropenia in a systematic review and meta-analysis, PCT and CRP had similar diagnostic accuracy equivalent and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve: ...
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Interventions aiming to reduce time to antibiotics (TTA) in patients with fever and neutropenia during chemotherapy for cancer (FN), a systematic review
... Titles and abstracts from 6296 studies were assessed and 177 full-text articles retrieved. A flow diagram of the study selec- tion is provided in Fig. 1. Thirty studies were included, thir- teen in adult [12, 20–31], and ...
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Successful adaptation of fever and neutropenia clinical practice guideline in China
... development. Guideline adaptation is defined as a sys- tematic approach to the modification of a source guide- line for application in a different context [9]. Guideline adaptation requires fewer resources in comparison ...
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Performance of Interleukin 6 and Interleukin 8 serum levels in pediatric oncology patients with neutropenia and fever for the assessment of low risk
... with fever and neutro- penia during cancer ...of fever and neutropenia among patients during cancer ...with fever and neu- tropenia ...
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Improving Timeliness of Antibiotic Delivery for Patients With Fever and Suspected Neutropenia in a Pediatric Emergency Department
... OBJECTIVE: There is a high risk for morbidity and mortality in im- munocompromised patients with fever if antibiotics are not received in a timely manner. We designed a quality improvement effort geared at ...
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Bacterial rRNA Targeted Reverse Transcription PCR Used To Identify Pathogens Responsible for Fever with Neutropenia
... Fever with neutropenia is a frequent complication in pa- tients undergoing cancer chemotherapy. Because bacterial in- fection is considered to be the most common cause of this complication, which can be ...
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Protocol for a systematic review of time to antibiotics (TTA) in patients with fever and neutropenia during chemotherapy for cancer (FN) and interventions aiming to reduce TTA
... severe neutropenia [8] and most of the time the level used as definition for ...for neutropenia will be cap- tured and some studies may include patients with non-severe neutropenia (ANC > ...
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Protocol for a systematic review of time to antibiotics (TTA) in patients with fever and neutropenia during chemotherapy for cancer (FN) and interventions aiming to reduce TTA
... severe neutropenia [8] and most of the time the level used as definition for ...for neutropenia will be cap- tured and some studies may include patients with non-severe neutropenia (ANC > ...
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Risk Factors for Invasive Fungal Disease in Pediatric Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation : A Systematic Review
... during fever and neutropenia), antifungal prophylaxis, whether IFD was defined using the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Mycoses Study Group (EORTC/MSG) consensus criteria, the ...
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Fusarium proliferatum Soft Tissue Infection at the Site of a Puncture by a Plant: Recovery, Isolation, and Direct Molecular Identification
... Fusarium spp. have emerged as important pathogens in im- munosuppressed patients (25). In neutropenic patients, Fusar- ium spp. can cause soft tissue infections, pneumonia, and dis- seminated disease with characteristic ...
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Predicting Infectious ComplicatioNs in Children with Cancer : An external validation study
... FULL PAPER British Journal of Cancer 2017 117, 171–178 | doi: 10.1038/bjc.2017.154 Keywords: fever and neutropenia; risk stratification; validation; child; low risk Predicting Infectious[r] ...
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Updated systematic review and meta-analysis of the predictive value of serum biomarkers in the assessment and management of fever during neutropenia in children with cancer
... Routinely measurable biomarkers as predictors for adverse outcomes in febrile neutropenia could improve management through risk stratification. This systematic review assesses the predictive role of biomarkers in ...
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CYCLIC NEUTROPENIA IN AN INFANT
... The hematologic course was characterized by rapid and usually complete disappearance of the neutrophils from the blood 1 to 3 days prior to the onset of the fever and infection.. This ne[r] ...
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Epidemiology of bloodstream infections in patients with acute myeloid leukemia undergoing levofloxacin prophylaxis
... Fluoroquinolone prophylaxis is frequently used world- wide in high-risk neutropenic patients. However, few reports have studied the rate of resistance amongst Gram-positive and Gram-negative bloodstream isolates during ...
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Utility of blood procalcitonin concentration in the management of cancer patients with infections
... without neutropenia, were analyzed, patients with stage IV cancer or metastasis had significantly higher baseline PCT levels than did those with early stages of cancer or those in ...(no fever or ...
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Correction of Neutropenia Associated With Dysgammaglobulinemia
... This report describes the correction of severe neutropenia in a patient with dysgammaglobulinemia type I after administration of unusually high doses of gamma- globulin. It is shown that[r] ...
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A clinical and molecular review of ubiquitous glucose-6-phosphatase deficiency caused by G6PC3mutations
... thrombocytopenia in many patients, a prominent superficial venous pattern and a high incidence of congenital cardiac defects and uro-genital anomalies. The phenotypic spectrum of the condition is wide and includes rare ...
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