Abstract
Infections that occurrred in 92 previously untreated patients with Hodgkin's disease were reviewed from the time of laprotomy and splenectomy. Pneumonias occurred in nine patients with urinary tract infections in twelve during the immediate postoperative period. Severe bacterial infections did not occur in any patients during initial radiation therapy, adjuvant chemotherapy (stages I through IIIA), initial intensive chemotherapy (stages IIIB and IV) or during remission. Severe infections occurred in eight profoundly granulocytopenic patients with recurrent Hodgkin's disease. Streptococcus (Diplococcus) pneumoniae and Hemophilus spp infections were distinctly uncommon during the remission period. Herpes zoster, however, was very common developing in 22 of 92 (24 per cent) patients. Predisposing factors to herpes zoster included sex (female more than male), therapy (radiation plus chemotherapy more than chemotherapy alone), and age (less than 30 years of age more often than 30 to 50 years of age). Severe infection was uncommon in these patients except in ascociation with specific predisposing factors such as the immediate postoperative state of prolonged granulocytopenia associated with recurrent Hodgkin's disease or its therapy....Continue Reading
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