Hospital Medicine

Leukemia

Questions discussed in this category

What is your institutional approach to a restrictive “neutropenic diet”?

3 Answers available

For patients receiving outpatient venetoclax/azacitidine who develop profound neutropenia with ANC <200, do you admit for monitoring during the nadir in the absence of fever?

If not, what instructions do you give to patients regarding checking temperature at home/return precautions?

2 Answers available

How would you treat a de novo CLL with WBC of 1,000,000 and no overt signs of leukostasis?

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

Clin Infect Dis,

Clinical practice guideline for the use of antimicrobial agents in neutropenic patients with cancer: 2010 update by the infectious diseases society of america.

Journal of hospital medicine, 2018-08-01

Things We Do For No Reason: Neutropenic Diet.

Front Oncol, 2022 Mar 09

Neutropenic Diet Cannot Reduce the Risk of Infection and Mortality in Oncology Patients With Neutropenia.

BMJ Support Palliat Care, 2022 Jul 08

Neutropenic versus regular diet for acute leukaemia induction chemotherapy: randomised controlled trial.

Nutr Cancer, 2019 Oct 12

Lack of Efficacy of the Neutropenic Diet in Decreasing Infections among Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review.

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