| Autor: |
Gurwith MJ, Brunton JL, Lank BA, Ronald AR, Harding GK |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
The American journal of medicine [Am J Med] 1978 Jan; Vol. 64 (1), pp. 121-6. |
| DOI: |
10.1016/0002-9343(78)90187-0 |
| Abstrakt: |
The clinical course of 126 hospitalized patients during 192 episodes of granulocytopenia and fever was studied. Fever was a regular accompaniment of granulocytopenia, occurring in 94 per cent of granulocytopenic episodes. The mean duration of granulocytopenia (less than 1,000/mm3) was 18 days, with fever (temperature greater than 38 degrees C) being present during 44 per cent of those days. Fever was present during 69 per cent of days with a granulocyte count less than 10/mm3. A presumed infection was present in 86 of 128 febrile granulocytopenic episodes in adults and in 19 of 64 febrile granulocytopenic episodes in children. A fungal infection was found in 11 patients; a viral infection in 23 patients. Bacteremia occurred during 44 granulocytopenic episodes with 16.8 bacteremias/1,000 days of granulocytopenia in adults and 12.7 bacteremias/1,000 days in children. The mortality was 33 per cent per granulocytopenic episode in adults and only 8 per cent per episode in children. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
