[Acute myelogenous leukaemia: prognostic value of infectious complications observed during the induction treatment (author's transl)].
The prognostic value of infectious complications occurring during the induction treatment of acute myelogenous leukaemia is analysed and discussed. Eighty-eight patients were treated with the same chemotherapy. The early major infections (septicemia, pneumonia, ano-rectal abscesses) and on the other hand, the late infections (following the maximum agranulocytosis) are of a bad prognosis. During the second phase of chemotherapy-induced aplasia, the improvement of infection means usually a forthcoming complete remission while its persistence or its aggravation means usually a failure of the chemotherapy. At last, when the complete remission has been achieved, no peculiar feature of the infection is significantly correlated with the survival.
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