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Nutrition, infection, and morbidity in leukemia
M S Kibirige1, P H Morris-Jones, R F Stevens
1Department of Haematology, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, England.
Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Seven of the 25 children with acute leukemia were malnourished on admission. Of the 11 children who presented with fever, 6 had protein energy malnutrition and a bacterial infection was confirmed. They had a lower total leucocyte count. Out of 18 well-nourished children, 5 presented with a fever and the causative organism was isolated in 1 patient. There were more patients with a palpable liver in the malnourished group, and they had a high morbidity due to infections during remission induction.