Journal article
Granulocyte transfusions for preventing infections in people with neutropenia or neutrophil dysfunction
- Abstract:
-
Despite modern antimicrobials and supportive therapy, bacterial and fungal infections are still major complications in people with prolonged disease-related or therapy-related neutropenia. Since the late 1990s there has been increasing demand for donated granulocyte transfusions to treat or prevent severe infections in people who lack their own functional granulocytes. This is an update of a Cochrane review first published in 2009.To determine the effectiveness and safety of prophylactic gran...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Access Document
- Files:
-
-
(Preview, Version of record, pdf, 566.3KB, Terms of use)
-
- Publisher copy:
- 10.1002/14651858.CD005341.pub3
Authors
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews More from this journal
- Volume:
- 2015
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- CD005341
- Publication date:
- 2015-09-29
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1469-493X
- ISSN:
-
1361-6137
- Language:
-
English
- Pubs id:
-
pubs:343835
- UUID:
-
uuid:f61255f2-2820-41e2-9c6d-dbe08c174a3c
- Local pid:
-
pubs:343835
- Source identifiers:
-
343835
- Deposit date:
-
2016-02-11
- ARK identifier:
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- The Cochrane Collaboration
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2015 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. This is the publisher's version of the article. The final version is available online from Wiley at: [10.1002/14651858.CD005341.pub3].
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record