Clinically defined chemotherapy-associated bowel syndrome predicts severe complications and death in cancer patients.

Vehreschild MJ, Meissner AM, Cornely OA, Maschmeyer G, Neumann S, von Lilienfeld-Toal M, Karthaus M, Wattad M, Staib P, Hellmich M, Christ H, Vehreschild JJ (2011) Clinically defined chemotherapy-associated bowel syndrome predicts severe complications and death in cancer patients. Haematologica 96(12), 1855-1860.

Abstract

Neutropenic patients are at risk of abdominal complications and yet the incidence and impact of these complications on patients' morbidity and mortality have not been sufficiently evaluated. We aimed to assess a clinical rule for early detection of abdominal complications leading to death or transfer to intensive care in patients with chemotherapy-associated neutropenia.

Leibniz-HKI-Autor*innen

Marie von Lilienfeld-Toal

Identifier

doi: 10.3324/haematol.2011.049627

PMID: 21859736