Early Diagnosis of Aspergillosis in Patients at High Risk of Fungal Infection Caused by Treatment for Hematologic Cancer or Other Disease

Conditions

• Graft Versus Host Disease
• Infection
• Leukemia
• Myelodysplastic Syndromes
• Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms

Interventions

• GENETIC: polymerase chain reaction
• OTHER: bronchoalveolar lavage
• OTHER: immunoenzyme technique
• OTHER: laboratory biomarker analysis
• PROCEDURE: bronchoscopy
• PROCEDURE: management of therapy complications

Sponsor

St. Bartholomew's Hospital