Impairment in gas exchange after granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) in a patient with the adult respiratory distress syndrome.
We describe the previously unreported finding of reproducible arterial d desaturation after successive injections of granulocyte colony stimulating factor in a orthotopic liver transplant recipient with the adult respiratory distress syndrome and antibiotic-induced neutropenia.
Schilero
G J
GJ
Department of Surgery and Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029.
Oropello
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J
Benjamin
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D009503:Neutropenia / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*
D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor