Steroids in neutropenic patients with sepsis - comment on How I manage haematology patients with septic shock by Jon Cohen and Stephen Drage

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 155, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 624-625

  Christopeit, Maximilian ^a   Penack, Olaf ^b   Ostermann, Helmut ^c  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITÄT HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrocortisone; Neutropenia; Sepsis; Steroid

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; FATALITY; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; NEUTROPENIA; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY INFECTION; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL RATE;

HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 81155134952     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2011.08733.x     Document Type: Letter

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