Treatment of severe neutropenic sepsis with granulocyte transfusion in the current era - experience from an adult haematology unit in Singapore

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-24

  Ang, A L ^a   Linn, Y C ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adults; Granulocytes; Neutropenia; Sepsis; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; DEXAMETHASONE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HETASTARCH; INOTROPIC AGENT; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD DONOR; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANDIDIASIS; CENTRIFUGATION; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; FUSARIOSIS; GRANULOCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGAPORE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRICHOSPORONOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; PREMEDICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SINGAPORE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650761670     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2010.01035.x     Document Type: Article

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