TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bochennek, Konrad
A1  - Hassler, Angela
A1  - Perner, Corinna
A1  - Gilfert, Julia
A1  - Schöning, Stefan
A1  - Klingebiel, Thomas
A1  - Reinhardt, Dirk
A1  - Creutzig, Ursula
A1  - Lehrnbecher, Thomas
T1  - Infectious complications in children with acute myeloid leukemia: decreased mortality in multicenter trial AML-BFM 2004
T2  - Blood cancer journal
N2  - Infections are an important cause for morbidity and mortality in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We therefore characterized infectious complications in children treated according to the trial AML-BFM 2004. Patients with Down syndrome were excluded from the analysis. Data were gathered from the medical records in the hospital where the patients were treated. A total of 405 patients (203 girls; median age 8.4 years) experienced 1326 infections. Fever without identifiable source occurred in 56.1% of the patients and clinically and microbiologically documented infections in 17.5% and 32.4% of the patients, respectively. In all, 240 Gram-positive (112 viridans group streptococci) and 90 Gram-negative isolates were recovered from the bloodstream. Invasive fungal infection was diagnosed in 3% of the patients. Three children each died of Gram-negative bacteremia and invasive aspergillosis, respectively. As compared with the results of AML-BFM 93 with lower dose intensity, infection-related morbidity was slightly higher in AML-BFM 2004 (3.3. versus 2.8 infections per patient), whereas infection-related mortality significantly decreased (1.5% versus 5.4%; P=0.003). Specific anti-infective recommendations included in the treatment protocol, regular training courses for pediatric hematologists and increasing experience may be the reason for reduced infection-related mortality in children with AML. Further studies are needed to decrease infection-related morbidity.
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41718
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-417187
SN  - 2044-5385
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VL  - 6
IS  - e382
PB  - Nature Publishing Group
CY  - London [u.a.]
ER  -