Module 2
Sepsis in neutropenia and diagnostics
Aims:
- To monitor profiles of inflammatory mediators in patients with hematologic malignancies, with particular attention on sepsis during neutropenia.
- To quantify inflammatory markers and to discriminate toxic effects of chemotherapy, sepsis, engraftment syndrome, and acute graft versus host disease in neutropenic patients.
- To develop diagnostic tools to rapidly monitor inflammatory profiles in order to identify the time window for mediator modulation.