Cefepime-induced severe neutropenia: a case report

• In: Hospital Pharmacy Section - Poster Session
• At: Salvadore (Brazil) (2006)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-P-069
• By: CHENG, Hui-Feng (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, China Taiwan)
• Co-author(s): Deng, Shin-Tarng (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, TAIPEI, China Taiwan)
  
• Abstract:

  Cefepime , a forth-generation cephalosporin antibiotics, has been used clinically in severe infections caused by a wide range of gram-positive and gram-negative microbes. Although the product information clams that less than 1% of patients have a decrease in neutrophils, prolong use of cefepime had been founded to have a high rate of drug-related

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