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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-1-26
pubmed:abstractText
Between 1979 and 1986, 29 pediatric patients underwent bone marrow transplantation at Texas Children's Hospital using routine reverse isolation. Laminar air flow rooms, prophylactic antibiotics, and gut sterilization were not utilized. The diagnoses included acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) (16 patients), acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL) (10 patients), and chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) (three patients). All patients had fever during hospitalization. There were 11 episodes of bacteremia in seven patients giving a bacteremia rate of 37.9%. Moderate-to-severe (grade II-IV) acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) was seen in eight patients (27.6%). The incidence of infection and GVHD during the first 100 days post-transplantation is comparable to published reports from centers utilizing rigid isolation and sterilization of the gut. It is suggested that bone marrow transplantation may be done using standard reverse isolation techniques without increasing the morbidity or mortality of the procedure.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0098-1532
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Bone marrow transplantation in childhood leukemia using reverse isolation techniques.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review