Evaluating pulmonary complications in childhood acute leukemias

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 522-526

  Erdur, Bariş ^a   Yilmaz, Şebnem ^a   Ören, Hale ^a   Demircioǧlu, Fatih ^a   Çakmakçi, Handan ^a   Irken, Gülersu ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute leukemia; Childhood; Pulmonary complications

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTILEUKEMIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE; LIVER ENZYME; MACROLIDE; MEROPENEM; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ABNORMALLY HIGH SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CANDIDA; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEUKOSTASIS; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG MYCOSIS; LYMPHOMATOID GRANULOMATOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MYCOSIS; OXYGEN THERAPY; PLEURISY; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULMONARY CANDIDIASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SPUTUM CULTURE; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; ACUTE DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUTROPENIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PULMONARY EDEMA; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 54449089980     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e31816916e4     Document Type: Article

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