[Afebrile infections in adult patients with acute leukemia]. / Infecciones afebriles en pacientes adultos con leucemia aguda.
Medicina (B Aires)
; 55(3): 193-6, 1995.
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| ID: mdl-8544714
Characteristics of afebrile infection episodes among adult patients with acute leukemia are here described. Afebrile episodes represented 14.3% of all infections. They significantly differed from the febrile episodes because: 1) they prevailed among patients with granulocyte count greater than 500/mm3 (p < 0.001); 2) they often involved patients in complete remission (p < 0.0002); 3) they affected more frequently the kidney and urinary tract than febrile infections (p = 0.0005) and 4) they lacked lung involvement (p < 0.01). The rate of documented infections by cultures, cytology or serological tests was not different between both infection types. Observed mortality during afebrile episodes was threefold less than febrile infections; this difference, however, did not reach statistical significance. In conclusion, afebrile infection in acute leukemia is a distinct clinical entity, unlike febrile infection.
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Assunto principal:
Infecções Urinárias
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Leucemia
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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Es
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Medicina (B Aires)
Ano de publicação:
1995
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Article
País de afiliação:
Argentina
País de publicação:
Argentina