Bacterial and fungal infections are the main cause of morbidity and mortality in neutropenic patients. The transfusion of granulocytes to restore host defenses in severely neutropenic patients has ...
Patients with neutropenia who have multidrug-resistant organisms have better rates of overall survival when receiving granulocyte transfusions within 7 days of neutropenic sepsis. Patients with ...
Treatment of newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia without cytarabine. In our previous study with MACOPB, we identified a high-risk group of patients with a poor 3-year survival rate of 29%.
The serum muramidase activities of four granulocytopenic patients with the Chediak—Higashi syndrome were always strikingly elevated, indicating a markedly increased rate of granulocyte turnover. Two ...
The Microanatomic Location of Metastatic Melanoma in Sentinel Lymph Nodes Predicts Nonsentinel Lymph Node Involvement CSFs were associated with a 20% reduction in febrile neutropenia and shorter ...
Researchers in Sweden have provided a comprehensive characterization of circulating granulocytes in people infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that ...
In 1987, the total medical cost of cancer in the United States, adjusted to 2007 US dollars, was $24.7 billion. From 1987 to the period between 2001 and 2005, costs nearly doubled, to approximately ...
Granulocytes should be transfused ABO- and Rhesus-compatible as there is always a significant RBC contamination. If the recipient is cytomegalo virus-negative concentrates from cytomegalo ...