Introducción: La Neutropenia constituye una de las complicaciones más comunes en pacientes que reciben tratamiento sistémico con quimioterapia, siendo esta población heterogénea; por lo tanto su presentación clínica es inespecífica, pudiendo presentarse manera asintomática o inclusive evidenciar cuadros muy severos signos sepsis grave. Ante referido, la actualidad los grupos trabajo requieren d...

The present study was aimed to evaluate the incidences of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia in patients with solid tumors in India. The patients with carcinomas of breast, lung, ovary, colon, head and neck, and liver were divided in two groups. Group 1 was for the patients who experienced grade 0-2 neutropenia and Group 2 was for patients with grade 3-4 neutropenia. Different types of chemothera...

objective systemic lupus erythematosus (sle), an autoimmune systemic disease with unknown etiology, affects virtually every part of the body; involvement of the central nervous system (cns) is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) patients and is the least understood aspect of the disease. neutropenia is very uncommon in childhood lupus. true n...

background: children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura who are treated with intravenous immunoglobulin therapy might experience a decline in their absolute neutrophil count. the aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of neutropenia following intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura undergoing intravenous immunoglobulin therapy. p...

severe congenital neutropenia (scn) is a rare primary immunodeficiency. different genes are found to be associated with scn, including ela2, hax1, was, gfi1, g-csfr. also, recently g6pc3 as a rare gene in scn has been reported. patients with g6pc3 often have cardiac and/or urogenital malformations. two patients with   persistent   severe   neutropenia,   recurrent   infections   and   maturatio...

BACKGROUND Neutropenia is a major adverse event often associated with chemotherapy administration. Neutropenia-related complications often lead to increased use of costly health care including inpatient and outpatient services. Monitoring and treatment of neutropenia thus place an economic burden on the health care system. OBJECTIVES To evaluate (a) costs and medical resource use for chemothe...

Acute respiratory failure is a life-threatening complication in cancer patients. During neutropenia, patients are at high risk for bacterial pneumonia or invasive fungal infections, when neutropenia is prolonged. A high proportion of patients in whom neutropenia had been complicated by pneumonia will present with substantial respiratory deterioration during neutropenia recovery. Patients with f...