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Critical care clinics · Jul 2001
ReviewInfectious morbidity in critically ill patients with cancer.
- A Safdar and D Armstrong.
- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, USA. safdar@richmed.medpark.sc.edu
- Crit Care Clin. 2001 Jul 1; 17 (3): 531-70, vii-viii.
AbstractInfection frequently complicates the course of cancer treatment and often adversely affects the outcome. Patients have a greater tendency for acquiring infections caused by opportunistic microorganisms. Agents with low virulence potential may lead to invasive and often life-threatening infections because of altered host immune function. The immune dysfunction may be caused by the underlying malignancy, by antineoplastic chemotherapy, or by invasive procedures during supportive care.
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