Cristina Royo-Cebrecos, Júlia Laporte-Amargós, Marta Peña, Isabel Ruiz-Camps, Carolina Garcia-Vidal, Edson Abdala, Chiara Oltolini, Murat Akova, Miguel Montejo, Malgorzata Mikulska, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Fabián Herrera, Oriol Gasch, Lubos Drgona, Hugo Manuel Paz Morales, Anne-Sophie Brunel, Estefanía García, Burcu Isler, Winfried V Kern, Zaira R Palacios-Baena, Guillermo Maestr de la Calle, Maria Milagro Montero, Souha S Kanj, Oguz R Sipahi, Sebnem Calik, Ignacio Márquez-Gómez, Jorge I Marin, Marisa Z R Gomes, Philipp Hemmatii, Rafael Araos, Maddalena Peghin, Jose L Del Pozo, Lucrecia Yáñez, Robert Tilley, Adriana Manzur, Andrés Novo, Jordi Carratalà, Carlota Gudiol
This large, multicenter, retrospective cohort study including onco-hematological neutropenic patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa bloodstream infection (PABSI) found that among 1213 episodes, 411 (33%) presented with septic shock. The presence of solid tumors (33.3% vs. 20.2%, p < 0.001), a high-risk Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) index score (92.6% vs. 57.4%; p < 0.001), pneumonia (38% vs. 19.2% p < 0.001), and infection due to multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa (MDRPA) (33...
March 30, 2024: Microorganisms