Acute respiratory distress syndrome during neutropenia recovery
Open Access
- 1 January 2010
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Critical Care
- Vol. 14 (1), 114-3
- https://doi.org/10.1186/cc8198
Abstract
Acute respiratory failure is a life-threatening complication in cancer patients. During neutropenia, patients are at high risk for bacterial pneumonia or invasive fungal infections, when neutropenia is prolonged. A high proportion of patients in whom neutropenia had been complicated by pneumonia will present with substantial respiratory deterioration during neutropenia recovery. Patients with fungal pneumonia and those receiving granulocyte colony-stimulating factor to shorten neutropenia duration may be at higher risk for this acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome during neutropenia recovery. Routine screening of patient's risk factors is crucial since first symptoms of acute respiratory distress syndrome may occur before biological leukocyte recovery.Keywords
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