Transplant related septicaemia in patients undergoing autologous bone marrow transplantation for lymphoma and acute leukaemia

Autor: Raj Chopra, Seah H. Lim, Sally E. Kinsey, Andrew Mcmillan, Paul Cervi, David C. Linch, Nina Salooja, Mark P. Smith, Anthony H. Goldstone, John Holton
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Leukemialymphoma. 5(2-3)
ISSN: 1042-8194
Popis: 193 consecutive adult patients undergoing autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) for lymphomas and acute leukaemias were studied retrospectively to investigate the pattern of peri-transplant septicaemia. 80% of the early peri-transplant septicaemia occurred between day 4 and day 10 after AMBT. Gram-positive septicaemia was significantly more frequent than gram-negative septicaemia. The immediate mortality rate due to septicaemia during the early post-transplant period (< 72 hours from the development of first febrile episode), whether gram-negative or gram-positive was low (1%). Most infective deaths occurred in patients undergoing ABMT for primary refractory or resistant relapsed lymphomas and as a result of pulmonary complications presumed but not always confirmed to be of infective origin.
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