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Medicina Intensiva
Print version ISSN 0210-5691
Abstract
GARCIA SALIDO, A.; NIETO MORO, M. and CASADO FLORES, J.. Breathing difficulties in children subjected to bone marrow transplantation. Med. Intensiva [online]. 2011, vol.35, n.9, pp.569-577. ISSN 0210-5691.
Up to 60% of all children that receive to bone marrow transplantation (BMT) develop respiratory distress. It constitutes a common complication in this kind of patients, due to the increasing number of therapeutic applications of BMT and to improvement in the therapeutic approach to the problems associated with this procedure. We describe the different causes of respiratory distress after BMT in relation to its initiation or the presence of infection in its origin. The diagnosis and treatment are also reviewed.
Keywords : Pediatrics; Oncology; Respiratory distress; Pediatric critical care; Bone marrow transplantation.