ALLMedicine™ Neutropenia Center

Apr 16th, 2021 - Despite all the developments in medicine, infections continue to be one of the most important causes of mortality in pediatric hematology and oncology patients. The more severe the degree of neutropenia develops after intensive chemotherapy in can...

Apr 14th, 2021 - To investigate the value of presepsin and proadrenomedullin (proADM) as new markers for febrile neutropenia, by comparing them with conventional markers. Plasma specimens for presepsin, proADM, C-reactive protein (CRP), and procalcitonin (PCT) wer...

Apr 13th, 2021 - The atypical antipsychotic clozapine is the only effective medication for treatment-resistant schizophrenia. However, it can also induce serious adverse drug reactions, including agranulocytosis and neutropenia. The mechanism by which it does so i...

Apr 13th, 2021 - The aim of our study was to determine whether patients with neutropenia (absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≤1,500 cells/µL) had higher rates of surgical site infection after elective abdominal wall reconstruction. This was a case series from a prosp...

Apr 13th, 2021 - We performed this study to determine whether the degree of neutropenia after the first chemotherapy cycle can be used as a surrogate marker of individual susceptibility to chemotherapeutic agents affecting treatment outcome in patients with neurob...

Nov 24th, 2020 - Patients with cancer are at higher risk of more severe COVID-19 infection and have more associated complications. The position paper describes the management of cancer patients, especially those receiving anticancer treatment, during the COVID-19 ...

Aug 18th, 2020 - The diagnosis of hypoglycemia and the use of diazoxide have risen in the last decade. Diazoxide is the only Food and Drug Agency-approved pharmacologic treatment for neonatal hypoglycemia caused by hyperinsulinism (HI). Recent publications have hi...

Mar 20th, 2019 - Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is a common finding in many populations, including healthy women and persons with underlying urologic abnormalities. The 2005 guideline from the Infectious Diseases Society of America recommended that ASB should be s.

Nov 5th, 2018 - The range of pathology in adults that can produce abdominal pain is broad and necessitates an imaging approach to evaluate many different organ systems. Although localizing pain prompts directed imaging/management, clinical presentations may vary ...

Sep 3rd, 2018 - Antibacterial and antifungal prophylaxis is recommended for patients who are at high risk of infection, including patients who are expected to have profound, protracted neutropenia, which is defined as < 100 neutrophils/µL for > 7 days or other ri...

Apr 16th, 2021 - Despite all the developments in medicine, infections continue to be one of the most important causes of mortality in pediatric hematology and oncology patients. The more severe the degree of neutropenia develops after intensive chemotherapy in can...

Apr 14th, 2021 - To investigate the value of presepsin and proadrenomedullin (proADM) as new markers for febrile neutropenia, by comparing them with conventional markers. Plasma specimens for presepsin, proADM, C-reactive protein (CRP), and procalcitonin (PCT) wer...

Apr 13th, 2021 - The atypical antipsychotic clozapine is the only effective medication for treatment-resistant schizophrenia. However, it can also induce serious adverse drug reactions, including agranulocytosis and neutropenia. The mechanism by which it does so i...

Apr 13th, 2021 - The aim of our study was to determine whether patients with neutropenia (absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≤1,500 cells/µL) had higher rates of surgical site infection after elective abdominal wall reconstruction. This was a case series from a prosp...

Apr 13th, 2021 - We performed this study to determine whether the degree of neutropenia after the first chemotherapy cycle can be used as a surrogate marker of individual susceptibility to chemotherapeutic agents affecting treatment outcome in patients with neurob...

Feb 1st, 2021 - The choice of whether to use granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) for the prevention of febrile neutropenia for patients undergoing chemotherapy depends on whether it is being used for primary or secondary prophylaxis, indicates a survey ...

Jan 27th, 2021 - Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a group of related hematopoietic disorders characterized by peripheral blood cytopenias, abnormal blood cell development, and clonal genetic markers. Patients with MDS may present with clinical manifestations of a...

Jan 24th, 2021 - In the United States, for the past two decades, pegfilgrastim (Neulasta) and its biosimilars have been the widely used standard of care for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia (CIN). Now, the champions of a new agent, plinabulin (Be...

Sep 21st, 2020 - A new study has found that late-onset neutropenia is a notably common and occasionally serious occurrence in rituximab-treated patients with autoimmune diseases. Dr. Reza Zonozi "The literature on late-onset neutropenia – or LON – has, to date, be...

Jun 25th, 2020 - Editor's Note: The Case Challenge series includes difficult-to-diagnose conditions, some of which are not frequently encountered by most clinicians but are nonetheless important to accurately recognize. Test your diagnostic and treatment skills us...