Conference paper

The treatment of febrile immunosuppressed patient

Mirando Mrsić ; Department for Hematology, Clinic for Internal Medicine, Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. The recognition and treatment of infections in this patient population are particularly difficult task for several reasons: the clinical manifestation of infection may be indistinguishable from those of the underlying disease; the effect of immunosuppressive therapy may diminish the usual disease manifestation; the spectrum of potential pathogens is large, making empirical treatment difficult.
Fever with or without a clinically obvious source is a frequent presenting feature of serious infections in immunosuppressive patients. Pneumonia is one of the most frequent life-threatening infections in patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy.

Keywords

immunosuppressive therapy; infections; febrile neutropenia

Hrčak ID:

125350

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/125350

Publication date:

19.10.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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