Abstract
Sepsis is one of the most serious infections occurring in patients with lung cancer. Thus, we determined what is most predisposing factor in prognosis of sepsis in lung cancer patients; the type of causative bacteria, neutropenia or host nutritional status. A total of 27 lung cancer patients with sepsis, which consisted of 23 males and 4 females (mean age 70.7 +/- 6.6), were included in this study. The study was conducted from 1991 to 1995. All subjects were classified into the survival group and the dead group. Staphylococcus aureus or Esherichia coli most frequently isolated from the blood of the patients in the survival group, while either E. coli alone or multiple organisms were predominant in the dead group. Neutropenia did not affect the outcome of sepsis in lung cancer patients. In contrast nutritional status, as determined by serum albumin levels, was closely related to the mortality in septic lung cancer patients. These results predict that the prognosis of sepsis is dependent on nutritional status of lung cancer patients.
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