Treatment and prophylaxis of severe infections in neutropenic patients by granulocyte transfusions

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 273-281

  Illerhaus, G ^b   Wirth, K ^b   Dwenger, A ^b   Waller, C F ^b   Garbe, A ^b   Brass, V ^b   Lang, H ^b   Lange, W ^a  

^a Johanniter Krankenhaus   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Granulocyte transfusion; Infection; Neutropenia; rhG CSF

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PARACETAMOL; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; TICLOPIDINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPENIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEADACHE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTES; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOANTIBODIES; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SAFETY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0036943568     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-002-0439-6     Document Type: Article

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