Brief communication: Legionnaire's disease successfully treated in acute myelocytic leukemia during severe neutropenia.

Abstract

A patient with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia developed progressive lung infiltrates and unremitting fevers during a profound neutropenic state. Legionnaire's disease was diagnosed by simple immunologic studies and successfully treated with erythromycin. This index case alerts physicians toward a treatable infection which would not normally be susceptible to the empiric antibiotic regimens given neutropenic patients with fevers.

• Authors: T H Guthrie Jr, P Mahizhnan
• Journal: Medical and pediatric oncology (Med Pediatr Oncol) Vol. 11 Issue 3 Pg. 180-1 ( 1983) ISSN: 0098-1532 [Print] United States
• PMID: 6574308 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Anti-Bacterial Agents

Topics

• Agranulocytosis (complications)
• Anti-Bacterial Agents (therapeutic use)
• Humans
• Legionnaires' Disease (complications, drug therapy)
• Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute (complications)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Neutropenia (complications)