Managing patients with an absent or dysfunctional spleen

BMJ

Volumn 312, Issue 7042, 1996, Pages 1359-1360

  Workman, M R ^a   Philpott Howard, J ^a   Bellingham, A J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SALMONELLOSIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RISK FACTORS; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES;

EID: 0029924898     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.312.7042.1359c     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

1. Working Party of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology Clinical Haematology Task Force. Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of infection in patients with an absent or dysfunctional spleen. BMJ 1996; 312: 430–4. (17 February.)
2. Workman MR, Philpott-Howard JN, Casewell MW, Bellingham AJ. Salmonella bacteraemia in sickle cell disease at King's College Hospital: 1976-1991. J Hosp Infect 1994; 27: 195–199.
3. Workman MR, Philpott-Howard J, Bragman S, Brito-Babapulle F, Bellingham AJ. Emergence of ciprofloxacin resistance during treatment of salmonella osteomyelitis in three patients with sickle cell disease. J Infect 1996; 32: 27–32.