Pertussis-related hyperleukocytosis: Role of hyperhydration and exchange transfusion

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 987-990

  Lashkari, Harsha Prasada ^a   Karuppaswamy, Sathiyamoorthy ^a   Khalifa, Khorshid ^a  

^a BASILDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; DOPAMINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HUMAN ALBUMIN; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD CLOTTING; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; COMMON COLD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; CRYOPRECIPITATE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE SHAPE; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPERHYDRATION; HYPERINFLATION; HYPOXEMIA; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OXYGEN DESATURATION; OXYGEN NASAL CANNULA; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PERTUSSIS; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOSIS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 84873672613     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: 19382707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922811410971     Document Type: Article

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