Journal
PEDIATRIC BLOOD & CANCER
Volume 66, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.27887
Keywords
biomarker; children; febrile neutropenia; sensitivity; specificity
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- NIHR [10872]
- MRC [G0800472] Funding Source: UKRI
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Routinely measurable biomarkers as predictors for adverse outcomes in febrile neutropenia could improve management through risk stratification. This systematic review assesses the predictive role of biomarkers in identifying events such as bacteraemia, clinically documented infections, microbiologically documented infection, severe sepsis requiring intensive care or high dependency care and death. This review collates 8319 episodes from 4843 patients. C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8 and procalcitonin (PCT) consistently predict bacteraemia and severe sepsis; other outcomes have highly heterogeneous results. Performance of the biomarkers at admission using different thresholds demonstrates that PCT > 0.5 ng/mL offers the best compromise between sensitivity and specificity: sensitivity 0.67 (confidence interval [CI] 0.53-0.79) specificity 0.73 (CI 0.66-0.77). Seventeen studies describe the use of serial biomarkers, with PCT having the greatest discriminatory role. Biomarkers, potentially with serial measurements, may predict adverse outcomes in paediatric febrile neutropenia and their role in risk stratification is promising.
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