Neutropenic Enterocolitis Complicating Induction Chemotherapy in an Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient

Neutropenic enterocolitis is a rare inflammatory condition of the ileocecum. Clinicians should be aware of neutropenic enterocolitis in neutropenic patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing chemotherapy as it portends a poor prognosis if not diagnosed early in its course. We report a patient...

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Autores principales: Groudan, Kevin, Ready, Audrey, Sabir, Riffat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33542890
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13029
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description Neutropenic enterocolitis is a rare inflammatory condition of the ileocecum. Clinicians should be aware of neutropenic enterocolitis in neutropenic patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing chemotherapy as it portends a poor prognosis if not diagnosed early in its course. We report a patient diagnosed with neutropenic enterocolitis within one week of receiving induction chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia. 
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spelling pubmed-78499172021-02-03 Neutropenic Enterocolitis Complicating Induction Chemotherapy in an Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient Groudan, Kevin Ready, Audrey Sabir, Riffat Cureus Gastroenterology Neutropenic enterocolitis is a rare inflammatory condition of the ileocecum. Clinicians should be aware of neutropenic enterocolitis in neutropenic patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing chemotherapy as it portends a poor prognosis if not diagnosed early in its course. We report a patient diagnosed with neutropenic enterocolitis within one week of receiving induction chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia.  Cureus 2021-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7849917/ /pubmed/33542890 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13029 Text en Copyright © 2021, Groudan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Neutropenic Enterocolitis Complicating Induction Chemotherapy in an Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient
title Neutropenic Enterocolitis Complicating Induction Chemotherapy in an Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient
title_full Neutropenic Enterocolitis Complicating Induction Chemotherapy in an Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient
title_fullStr Neutropenic Enterocolitis Complicating Induction Chemotherapy in an Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient
title_full_unstemmed Neutropenic Enterocolitis Complicating Induction Chemotherapy in an Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient
title_short Neutropenic Enterocolitis Complicating Induction Chemotherapy in an Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient
title_sort neutropenic enterocolitis complicating induction chemotherapy in an acute myeloid leukemia patient
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33542890
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13029
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