Research Catalog

Title

Clinical management of infections in immunocompromised infants and children / editor, Christian C. Patrick.

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : Lippincott, Williams & Wilkens, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

Patrick, Christian C.

Description

xv, 654 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Infection Control > Child
• Immunocompromised Host > Child
• Infection in children
• Immunological deficiency syndromes in children > Complications

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Ralph D. Feigin -- 1. Disorders of Host Defense / Robert W. Hostoffer -- 2. Premature Infants / Kenneth M. Boyer -- 3. Pediatric Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Natural History, Perinatal Transmission, and Opportunistic Infections / Russell B. Van Dyke and Ross E. McKinney, Jr. -- 4. Congenital Immunodeficiencies / Imelda Celine Hanson -- 5. Management of Specific Infectious Complications in Children with Leukemias and Lymphomas / Andreas H. Groll, Robert S. Irwin and James W. Lee / [et al.] -- 6. Infections Following Kidney Transplantation in Children / Maria T. Millan, Dev D. Desai and Samuel K. S. So -- 7. Infectious Complications of Liver Transplantation in Children / Michael Green -- 8. Heart Transplant Recipients / Sheldon L. Kaplan -- 9. Infections in Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Jorge Lujan-Zilbermann and Christian C. Patrick -- 10. Vascular Access Device Infections / Patricia M. Flynn --
• 11. Sickle Cell Disease and Other Hemoglobinopathies / Winfred C. Wang -- 12. Infections in Children with Renal Disease / Bettina H. Ault, Deborah P. Jones and Robert J. Wyatt -- 13. Infections in Children with Cystic Fibrosis / Marc D. Foca, Sujatha Rajan and Lisa Saiman -- 14. Malnutrition, Immunocompetence, and the Risk of Infection / Jose Ignacio Santos -- 15. Asplenia / P. Joan Chesney -- 16. Infections in Burn Patients / Lisa M. Hunsicker, John P. Heggers and Janak A. Patel -- 17. Assessment and Management of Suspected Infection in Neutropenic Patients / Jonathan A. McCullers and Jerry L. Shenep -- 18. Sinopulmonary Infections in Immunocompromised Infants and Children / Dennis C. Stokes -- 19. Enteric Infections / Douglas K. Mitchell and Larry K. Pickering -- 20. Central Nervous System Infections in the Immunocompromised Host / Ram Yogev -- 21. Dermatologic Findings with Infection / Deanna Soloway-Simon and Moise Levy --
• 22. Immunizations in the Immunocompromised Host / William C. Gruber -- 23. Prevention of Infection / James H. Conway -- 24. Antibiotic Therapy in the Immunocompromised Host / Stephen A. Chartrand -- 25. Immunomodulation / Uma H. Athale, R. Clark Brown and Wayne L. Furman.

ISBN

0781717183

LCCN

00060888

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries