METHOD FOR DETECTION OF INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKAEMIA ACCOMPANYING NEUTROPENIA Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC G01N33/68 G01N33/50 G01N33/48 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to a laboratory diagnostic technique for developing an infection in the patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in the state of induced neutropenia. Substance of the method consists in patient's blood analysis for C-reactive protein (CRP) count, and if observing no clinical manifestations of the infection with the CRP count <11 mg/l, no infection is detected, while the CRP count >11 mg/l enables diagnosing the infectious process independent from fever or a site of infection.

EFFECT: using the declared method enables the more accurate and early diagnosis of infectious complications, and more precise control of the clinical effectiveness of antimicrobial therapy in the ALL patients in the state of neutropenia.

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