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... splenectomized patients and patients living in endemic areas, including college Should be administered to splenectomized patients and patients living in endemic areas, including college ... meningococcal conjugate d Should be administered to splenectomized patients and patients living in endemic areas, incl uding college Should be administered to splenectomized patients ... Chapter 082. Infections in Patients with Cancer (Part 2) A similar problem can affect patients whose lymph node integrity has been disrupted by radical surgery, particularly patients who...

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... eliminating bacterial infections in CLL patients with hypogammaglobulinemia. Patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and all cancer patients ... bacteria. Chapter 082. Infections in Patients with Cancer (Part 3) The level of suspicion of infections with certain organisms should depend on the type of cancer diagnosed (Table 82-3). ... neutropenic patients i.e., those with <500 functional polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs)/à Land patients with impaired blood or lymphatic drainage may develop infections with unusual organisms. Innocent- looking...

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... found on the skin (Chap. 119). Although cellulitis tends to be circumscribed in normal hosts, it may spread rapidly in neutropenic patients. A tiny break in the skin may lead to spreading cellulitis, ... aeruginosa Non-aeruginosa Pseudomonas spp. a Enterobacter spp. Serratia spp. Acinetobacter spp. a Citrobacter spp. Gram-positive bacilli Chapter 082. Infections in Patients with ... pain and erythema; in the affected patients, signs of infection (e.g., purulence) are often lacking. What might be a furuncle in a normal host may require amputation because of uncontrolled infection...

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... commonly used in cancer chemotherapy and are prone to infection (Chap. 125), they pose a major problem in the care of patients with cancer. Some catheter-associated infections can be treated with antibiotics, ... Recommende d Treat with antibiotics to which the organism is sensitive, with duration based on the clinical setting. The incidence of metastatic infections following S. while in others the ... associated with herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection and is distinct from Stevens-Johnson syndrome, which is associated with drugs and tends to have a more widespread distribution. Since cancer patients...

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... Chapter 082. Infections in Patients with Cancer (Part 6) More common than tunnel infections are exit-site infections, often with erythema around the area where the line penetrates the skin. Most ... Similarly, many clinicians remove catheters associated with infections due to P. aeruginosa and Candida species, since such infections are difficult to treat and bloodstream infections with these ... candidiasis (Chap. 196) results from seeding of the liver (usually from a gastrointestinal source) in neutropenic patients. It is most common in patients being treated for acute leukemia and usually...

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... System Infections in Patients with Cancer Underlying Predisposition Findings on CT or MRI Prolonged Neutropenia Defects in Cellular Immunity a Mass lesions Aspergillus brain abscess ... disease resulting from viral encephalitis is expanded in immunocompromised patients. A predisposition to infections with intracellular organisms similar to those encountered in patients with AIDS ... listerial infection. As noted previously, splenectomized patients are susceptible to rapid, overwhelming infection with encapsulated bacteria (including S. pneumoniae, H. influenzae, and N. meningitidis)....

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... Chapter 082. Infections in Patients with Cancer (Part 8) Brain Masses Mass lesions of the brain most often present as headache with or without fever or neurologic abnormalities. Infections ... present as single or multiple mass lesions of the brain. A biopsy may be required for a definitive diagnosis. Pulmonary Infections Pneumonia (Chap. 251) in immunocompromised patients may ... neutrophils. Bacterial pneumonia in neutropenic patients may present without purulent sputum—or, in fact, without any sputum at all—and may not produce physical findings suggestive of chest consolidation...

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... cause adrenalitis with or without resulting adrenal insufficiency. The presentation of a sudden endocrine anomaly in an immunocompromised patient may be a sign of infection in the involved end organ. ... treatment of such infection is similar to that in normal hosts, with the following caveats: 1. In terms of diagnosis, a lack of physical findings resulting from a lack of granulocytes in the granulocytopenic ... and C. perfringens may arise spontaneously from lower gastrointestinal lesions (tumor or polyps); alternatively, these lesions may be Chapter 082. Infections in Patients with Cancer (Part...

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... â Ivyspring International Publisher. All rights reserved Research Paper Changes of uterine blood flow after vaginal radical trachelectomy (VRT) in patients with early-stage uterine invasive ... cervical cancer screening system, the mortality rate of patients with cervical cancer has decreased in Japan over the past twenty years 1 . However, the number of patients with early invasive ... vagina through a va- ginal approach and is designed to preserve child- bearing potential in young patients with cervical cancer. This procedure requires ligation and cutting the descending...

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... responses in patients with staphylococcal septicemia against two Staphylococcus aureus fibrinogen binding proteins: clumping factor and an extracellular fibrinogen binding protein. Clin Diagn ... those with superficial infections (Fig; 2B). The banding patterns within each group of patients were grossly similar with minor individual variations. The most prominent band present in both ... against PG in some of the patients with deep infection might be due to impaired immunity of advancing age, poor expression of virulence determinants by the infecting strain or changes in...

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... demonstrated activity with estramustine-based combinations and the activity of combined navelbine and mitoxantrone, sup- porting the testing of combination therapy with estra- mustine, mitoxantrone, and vinorelbine ... mitoxantrone, and vinorelbine in patients with CRPC. One study demonstrated a potential clinical ben- efit to adding estramustine with vinorelbine as second line therapy in CRPC [13]. Another study ... consistent with a clinica lly meaningful decline in QOL at week 9/10 c ompared with baseline [16]. How- ever, Bcl-2/actin ratios decreased in PBMCs with ther- apy, supporting further study of...

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... HRQL that combined data from patients with colorectal cancer and patients with other diagnoses such as breast or lung cancer [12-14] may have failed to identify relationships involving dis- ease- ... qual- ity of life in head and neck cancer patients. Qual Life Res 2000, 9:951-960. 48. Schultz AA, Winstead-Fry P: Predictors of quality of life in rural patients with cancer. Cancer Nurs 2001, ... limitation of our study is an inflated type I error. The predictors of HRQL in patients with colorectal cancer may differ from those in patients with other types of cancer. Furthermore, the predictors...

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... rapamycin/p70S6K1 pathway. Cancer Res 2007, 67:6325-6332. 29. Hu L, Hofmann J, Lu Y, Mills GB, Jaffe RB: Inhibition of phophatidylinositol 3’kinase increases efficacy of paclitaxel in in vitro and in ... against TRAIL is associated with a shorter disease-free interval. In pre- vious studies, death receptors or ligands have been repo rted to be associated with outcome in patients with ovarian cancer. ... an ovarian cancer activating factor in ascites of ovarian cancer patients. Clin Cancer Res 1995, 1:1223-1232. 6. Abdollahi T, Robertson NM, Abdollahi A, Litwack G: Identification of interleukin 8 as...

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... quality of life questionnaires in patients with colorectal cancer Lionel Uwer 1,2 , Christine Rotonda 2,3,4* , Francis Guillemin 2,3,4 , Joëlle Miny 5 , Marie-Christine Kaminsky 1 , Mariette Mercier 4,6 , ... assess health-related quality of life in patients with colorectal cancer. Eur J Cancer 2009, 45:3017-3026. 30. Sprangers MA, Schwartz CE: Integrating response shift into health-related quality of life ... essential property of measuring instrument, is defined as the abil- ity to detect a clinically meaningful change [9-12], such as a change that clinicians or patients think is * Correspondence: c.rotonda@chu-nancy.fr 2 Nancy-University,...

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... reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Research Comparison of numerical and verbal rating scales to measure pain exacerbations in patients with chronic cancer pain Cinzia ... cutpoints. Pain 2005, 113(1-2):37-44. 29. Serlin RC, Mendoza TR, Nakamura Y, Edwards KR, Cleeland CS: When is cancer pain mild, moderate or severe? Grading pain severity by its interference with ... Agreement between percentage pain reductions calculated from numeric rating scores of pain intensity and those reported by patients with acute or cancer pain. Pain 2003, 106(3):439-442. 39. Gracely...

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