Abstract
Although well documented in children with sickle cell disease (SCD), the incidence, cause, and outcome of bloodstream infection (BSI) are poorly defined in adults with SCD. Through a 5-year retrospective analysis of a cohort of 900 patients followed at our institution, we identified 56 episodes of BSI in 47 patients. The incidence rate of BSI was 1.2 episodes per 100 patient-years. As compared to the patients followed in the cohort, those with BSI were more likely to be younger (p = 0.001), to have Hb-S disease (p = 0.008), severe disease (p = 0.001), or additional immunosuppression (p = 0.05). BSI was hospital-acquired in 46% of cases and mainly associated with venous catheters (41%) and Staphylococcus aureus (34%). Pneumococci were rarely identified (10.7%). Despite an adequate duration of antibiotic therapy, the course of BSI was marked by a high frequency of associated bone-joint infection. Bone-joint infection was noted in 18 patients (32% of episodes) and occurred either during the initial BSI episode (13 patients) or 1-6 months after BSI resolution (5 patients). Factors associated with the occurrence of bone-joint infection were previous osteonecrosis (relative risk, 2.5; 95% confidence interval, 1.2-5.3) and S. aureus i...Continue Reading
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