Oncologic emergencies and urgencies: A comprehensive review

BE Gould Rothberg, TE Quest… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Patients with advanced cancer generate 4 million visits annually to emergency departments
(EDs) and other dedicated, high‐acuity oncology urgent care centers. Because of both the …

Updates in infection risk and management in acute leukemia

C Logan, D Koura, R Taplitz - Hematology 2014, the American …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Patients with hematologic malignancies are at increased risk of infection, with associated
morbidity and mortality. Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have qualitative and …

[HTML][HTML] Chemotherapy-induced neutropenia and emerging agents for prevention and treatment: a review

DW Blayney, L Schwartzberg - Cancer treatment reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Chemotherapy-induced neutropenia can lead to poor clinical outcomes.•CIN can
lead to infections, hospitalizations, mortality, and lower chemotherapy dose intensity.•G-CSF …

Do checkpoint inhibitors compromise the cancer patients' immunity and increase the vulnerability to COVID-19 infection?

J Kattan, C Kattan, T Assi - Immunotherapy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) has been declared a
pandemic by the WHO that claimed the lives of thousands of people within a few months …

Epidemiology and source of infection in cancer patients with febrile neutropenia: an experience from a developing country

N Joudeh, E Sawafta, A Abu Taha… - BMC Infectious …, 2023 - Springer
Background Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a life-threatening complication that predisposes
cancer patients to serious infections. This study aims to describe the epidemiology and …

[HTML][HTML] Manejo de los episodios de neutropenia febril en niños con cáncer. Consenso de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Infectología Pediátrica 2021

ME Santolaya, V Contardo, JP Torres… - Revista chilena de …, 2021 - SciELO Chile
Resumen El Comité de Infecciones en el Niño Inmunocomprometido de la Sociedad
Latinoamericana de Infectología Pediátrica, entrega este documento de Consenso, llamado …

Phytochemical analysis, cytotoxic, antioxidant, and antibacterial activities of lichens

N Aoussar, FE Laasri, M Bourhia… - Evidence‐Based …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Lichens present a complex symbiotic relationship between a filamentous
fungus, photoautotrophic partner (algae or cyanobacteria), and bacterial community. The …

De-escalation of empiric broad spectrum antibiotics in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients with febrile neutropenia

L Rearigh, E Stohs, A Freifeld, A Zimmer - Annals of Hematology, 2020 - Springer
Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a common serious complication in patients undergoing
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) requiring urgent evaluation and initiation of …

Survival outcome of empirical antifungal therapy and the value of early initiation: A review of the last decade

SS Kanj, AS Omrani, HM Al-Abdely, A Subhi, RE Fakih… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Aim: This rapid systematic review aimed to collect the evidence published over the last
decade on the effect of empirical antifungal therapy and its early initiation on survival rates …

A novel wearable device for continuous temperature monitoring & fever detection

N Verma, I Haji-Abolhassani, S Ganesh… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Continuous temperature monitoring in high-risk patients can enable healthcare
providers to remotely track patients' temperatures, promptly detect fevers and timely …