Purpose. The efficacy and safety of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) in critically ill patients with severe sepsis or septic shock were evaluated. Summary. The medical literature was ...

Indications for use are severely neutropenic patients with proven sepsis while receiving adequate antibiotic/antifungal therapy and septicemia in children. When considering the efficacy of ...

These benefits are equally relevant in other clinical scenarios, including sepsis, bloodstream infections (BSIs), deep-tissue infections, febrile neutropenia, and in other immunocompromised patients.

like those of patients with sepsis, can be difficult to diagnose. In a study of 32 patients with chemotherapy- induced neutropenic fever at Stanford University, the Karius test identified ...