Utility of flexible bronchoscopy with polymerase chain reaction in the diagnosis and management of pulmonary infiltrates in allogeneic HSCT patients

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OBJECTIVES: Pulmonary infiltrates in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (allo-HSCT) patients are potentially life-threatening and require early diagnosis and treatment. We aimed to retrospectively explore the clinical efficacy of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in conjunction with flexible bronchoscopy (FB) in allo-HSCT patients with pulmonary infiltrates.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed all patients undergoing FB after allo-HSCT at the Peking University Institute of Hematology from January 2013 to December 2016. We used PCR to detect various viruses in FB specimens, particularly for 27 viruses.

RESULTS: One hundred forty-nine diagnostic FBs were performed in 130 patients. The overall diagnostic yield was 58%. Eighty-nine percent of the patients with a positive FB result were diagnosed with a pulmonary infection. Viruses were the most common infectious diagnosis (70%), followed by fungi (48%), bacteria (38%), and Pneumocystis jirovecii (12%). Multivariate analyses showed that a chest computed tomography (CT) finding of diffuse pulmonary infiltrates (P = .012) and positive results in assisted microbiological and serological analyses (P = .000) predicted a positive FB result. FB results prompted a treatment modification in 61% of cases.

CONCLUSIONS: FB in conjunction with PCR is efficient in the rapid diagnosis and management of pulmonary infiltrates in allo-HSCT patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:32

Enthalten in:

Clinical transplantation - 32(2018), 1 vom: 01. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tang, Fei-Fei [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Xiao-Su [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Lan-Ping [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiao-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yu-Hong [VerfasserIn]
Mo, Xiao-Dong [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Kai-Yan [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Xiao-Jun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-Infective Agents
Flexible bronchoscopy
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Journal Article
Polymerase chain reaction
Pulmonary infiltrate
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 28.05.2019

Date Revised 18.04.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/ctr.13146

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM277578744