Chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia: about 200 episodes. Clinical, microbiological and therapeutic characteristics

Pathologie-biologie
O GharbiS Ben Ahmed

Abstract

Cytotoxic chemotherapy suppresses the haematopoietic system, febrile neutropenia is the most serious haematological toxicity associated with the risk of life-threatening infections. We present a retrospective study of 200 episodes of febrile neutropenia in 128 patients treated in department of medical oncology. The aim of this study was to determinate the clinical, therapeutic and evolutive characteristics in patients treated essentially for solid tumors. Among these patients, 72% of them have at least two episodes, the median age was 34 years with extremes six and 75 years. It has been noticed that 26.3% of patients have diabetes, the dominate neoplasm was solid tumors in 79.7%, 65% of patients have received preventive colony-stimulating factors, 83% have received preventive buccal disinfection with antifungic. The median duration of hospitalisation was 12 days, the median delay of febrile neutropenia was 10 days with extremes two and 31 days, median duration of febrile neutropenia was 5.45 days with extremes one and 24 days. Among these cases, 9.45% of them have nadir zero, 68% of patients have clinical documented infections, ORL in 47% of cases. According to the study, 12% of cases have documented microbiological fever, the ...Continue Reading

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