Diagnostic strategy in cancer patients with acute respiratory failure

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 808-822

  Azoulay, Élie ^a   Schlemmer, Benoît ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplantation; Bronchoalveolar lavage; Mechanical ventilation; Neutropenia; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE; STEROID; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHILIA; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TOXICITY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOMA; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOSIS; MYELOMA; NEUTROPENIA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID TUMOR; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TUBERCULOSIS; URINALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FRANCE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; NEOPLASMS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT;

EID: 33646878530     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-006-0129-2     Document Type: Review

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