Ann Intensive Care
December 2017
Background: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a rare congenital anomaly and remains among the most challenging ICU-managed disease. Beside severe pulmonary hypertension, lung hypoplasia and major abdominal surgery, infective complications remain major determinants of outcome. However, the specific incidence of sepsis as well as associated risk factors is unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere is no consensus on the optimal treatment of steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease (SR-aGVHD) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In our center, the treatment policy has changed over time with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) being used from 1999 to 2003, and etanercept or inolimomab after 2004. An observational study compared survival and infection rates in all consecutive patients receiving 1 of these 3 treatments.
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