Septicemia in acute leukemia

✍ Scribed by Cesario, T. C. ;Slater, L. M. ;Armentrout, S. A. ;Thrupp, L. D. ;Tilles, J. G.

• Book ID: 102949714
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 628 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-1532
• DOI: 10.1002/mpo.2950050127

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We have surveyed septicemic episodes occurring in individuals with acute leukemia and have found two factors favorably influencing survival, mainly granulocyte counts over 1,000 mm^3^ and gram‐positive bacteremias. In contrast, blood cultures persistently positive for longer than 48 hours were a bad prognosticator. Significantly, patients with gram‐positive bacteremia had received less antibiotics. in the week prior to septicemia than had patients with gram‐negative bacteremia.