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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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... method of eliminating bacterial infections in CLL patients with hypogammaglobulinemia. Patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and all cancer patients ... 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). Diagnosis of multiple ... Syndromes Skin lesions are common in cancer patients, and the appearance of these lesions may permit the diagnosis of systemic bacterial or fungal infection. While cellulitis caused by skin organisms...

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... 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 ... maculopapular rash. Punch biopsy of the skin may be the best method for diagnosis. Cellulitis, an acute spreading inflammation of the skin, is most often caused by infection with group A Streptococcus ... 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,...

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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 ... vancomycin. (Linezolid, quinupristin/dalfopristi n, and daptomycin are all appropriate.) If there are no contraindications to line removal , this course of action is optimal. If the line is...

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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 ... Gastrointestinal Tract Disease Hepatic candidiasis (Chap. 196) results from seeding of the liver (usually from a gastrointestinal source) in neutropenic patients. It is most common in patients...

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... Differential Diagnosis of Central Nervous System Infections in Patients with Cancer Underlying Predisposition Findings on CT or MRI Prolonged Neutropenia Defects in Cellular Immunity a ... The spectrum of disease resulting from viral encephalitis is expanded in immunocompromised patients. A predisposition to infections with intracellular organisms similar to those encountered in ... among those with other types of cancer; a similar syndrome has been reported in patients infected with HIV type 1. Physical examination reveals right-lower-quadrant tenderness, with or without...

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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 ... cultures for colonization of the nasopharynx with Aspergillus may predict the development of disease. Patients with Aspergillus infection often present with pleuritic chest pain and fever, which ... as the lesions are resolving. Table 82- 7 Differential Diagnosis of Chest Infiltrates in Immunocompromised Patients Cause of Pneumonia Infiltrate Infectious Noninfectious Localized ...

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... 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 ... 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. ... Cardiovascular Infections Patients with Hodgkin's disease are prone to persistent infections by Salmonella, sometimes (and particularly often in elderly patients) affecting a vascular...

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... Recommendations on vaccination are summarized in Table 82-2. Further Readings Chapter 082. Infections in Patients with Cancer (Part 10) Renal and Ureteral Infections Infections of the urinary tract ... splenectomized patients. In general, live virus (or live bacterial) vaccines should not be given to patients during intensive chemotherapy because of the risk of disseminated infection. Recommendations ... hypogammaglobulinemia. Antibiotic prophylaxis has been shown to be cheaper and efficacious in preventing infections in most CLL patients with hypogammaglobulinemia. Routine use of IVIg replacement...

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... presence of DM were the independent predictors of CVD in the earlier stages of CKD (Table 4). Table 1: Characteristics of patients with CKD stage II to IV excluding patient with history of renal ... II-IV (n= 376) patients attending nephrology clinic of a community hospital. Excluded from initial sample of 583 patients were those with CKD stage I, V and those with missing albumin values or ... in the prediction of car- diac death in dialysis patients. Arch Intern Med. 1988; 148: 2381-2385. 20. Aronow Ws. Usefulness of serum creatinine as a marker for coronary events in elderly patients...

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... organ involved, all of them were counted independently; � , 2 patients with intestinal TB diagnosed based on typical colonosopic findings and the other 2 patients with TB laryn- gitis without ... extrapulmonary involvement in the elderly could result from the small number of patients older than 60 yr (61 patients, 19.1%) in this study. In this setting, a small change in the number of patients with ... predictors of the presence of extrapul- monary involvement. In logistic regression, backward elim- ination was used to select variables to be maintained in the final model, using a p value of <0.10...

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... neuroserpin decrease. All determinations were carried out in a laboratory blind to the clinical outcome and neuroimaging findings. Endpoints The primary endpoint was the decrease of neuroserpin levels ... <0.0001 Baseline clinical characteristics, stroke subtype, vascular risk factors, biochemical parameters, neuroimaging findings and molecular markers of brain damage in patients with a neuroserpin decrease ... rpin decrease within the first 24 hours and MMP-9 levels at 24 hours in patients treated with tPA [6], which is in line with the results of the present manuscript, where a greater decrease in...

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... neuroserpin decrease. All determinations were carried out in a laboratory blind to the clinical outcome and neuroimaging findings. Endpoints The primary endpoint was the decrease of neuroserpin levels ... obtained after investigating neuroserpin effects using an in vitro model of brain ischemia [40]. The information reported here regarding b iomarkers might be relevant to evaluate the utility of ... rpin decrease within the first 24 hours and MMP-9 levels at 24 hours in patients treated with tPA [6], which is in line with the results of the present manuscript, where a greater decrease in...

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... re-treated with a combination of interferon alpha 2b and ribavirin. The responders sustained a significant decrease in the domain score of vitality while 5 of the 8 domain scores decrease in non-responders ... quality of life, work productivity and medical resource utilization of peginterferon alpha 2a vs the combination of interferon alpha 2b plus ribavirin as ini- tial treatment in patients with chronic ... end of treatment. Compared to the baseline the responders sustained a significant decrease in the domain score of vitality, while 5 of the 8 domain scores declined in non responders at the end of...

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... European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: a quality- of- life instrument for use in international clinical trials in oncology. J Natl Cancer Inst 1993, 85:365-376. 4. Osoba D, Zee ... FACT-C 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 ... courses of chemotherapy at two weeks interval in patients who reported no change in their state of health. To assess reliability, a sample of 30 patients with stable health between the 2 testing...

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