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Detection of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Haematological Malignancy Patients by using Lateral-flow Technology
Published on: March 22, 2012
Infectious chest complications in haematological malignancies
S Bommart1, A Bourdin2, A Makinson3
1Montpellier University Hospitals, Arnaud de Villeneuve Hospital, Medical Imaging, 371, avenue Doyen-Gaston-Giraud, 34295 Montpellier cedex 05, France.
Abstract:
The management of infections in haematology is dictated by the patient's type of acquired or induced immune deficiency (neutropenia, deficiency in cell-mediated or antibody-mediated immunity), and findings from clinical examination, laboratory studies, or morphologic investigations. The CT scan dominates in the initial management and follow-up of these patients, since clinical features very often appear to be non-specific. The radiologist's role is to guide the clinician towards a specific diagnosis such as aspergillosis or pneumocystosis, or to point them towards a non-infectious cause: tumour localisation, hypervolaemia, bronchiolitis obliterans suggestive of GVH disease, drug toxicity, or embolism.
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