Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-primed leukocyte transfusions in candida tropicalis fungemia in neutropenic patients

Haematologica

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 362-363

  Di Mario, Antonella ^a   Sica, Simona ^a   Salutari, Prassede ^a   Ortu La Barbera, Elettra ^a   Marra, Roberto ^a   Leone, Giuseppe ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fungal sepsis; G CSF; Granulocyte transfusions

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CEFTAZIDIME; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; MITOXANTRONE; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; FEVER; FUNGEMIA; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; NEUTROPENIA; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CANDIDIASIS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYTARABINE; FUNGEMIA; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; MITOXANTRONE; NEUTROPENIA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REMISSION INDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALDENSTROM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

EID: 0031437988     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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