{"id":2562,"date":"2009-02-28T23:17:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T23:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/infmascc\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:11:50","slug":"infmascc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/infmascc\/","title":{"rendered":"MASCC Index Score for Identifying Low-Risk Febrile Neutropenic Cancer Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Scoring system for risk of complications among febrile neutropenic patients, based on the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) predictive model.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 192px;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 66.6061%; height: 24px;\"><strong>Characteristic<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3939%; text-align: center; height: 24px;\"><strong style=\"text-align: center;\">Point score<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 66.6061%; height: 24px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Burden of illness<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">*No or mild symptoms<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">*Moderate symptoms<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3939%; text-align: center; height: 24px;\">5<br \/>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 66.6061%; height: 24px;\">No hypotension<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3939%; text-align: center; height: 24px;\">5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 66.6061%; height: 24px;\">No chronic obstructive pulmonary disease<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3939%; text-align: center; height: 24px;\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 66.6061%; height: 24px;\">Solid tumor or no previous fungal infection in hematologic tumor<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3939%; text-align: center; height: 24px;\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 66.6061%; height: 24px;\">Outpatient status<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3939%; text-align: center; height: 24px;\">3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 66.6061%; height: 24px;\">No dehydration<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3939%; text-align: center; height: 24px;\">3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 66.6061%; height: 24px;\">Aged &lt;60 years<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3939%; text-align: center; height: 24px;\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The maximum value in this system is 26, and a score of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&lt;<\/span>21 predicts a &lt;5% risk for severe complications and a very low mortality (&lt;1%) in febrile neutropenic patients.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Klastersky J. Management of fever in neutropenic patients with different risks of complications. Clin Infect Dis. 2004 Jul 15;39 Suppl 1:S32-7. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/15250018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Antoniadou A, Giamarellou H. Fever of unknown origin in febrile leukopenia. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2007 Dec;21(4):1055-90. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/18061089\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: Sep 03, 2008<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1720,322,1578,1577,1721,1576,59,222,1344,1575,1717,1718,1719,1405,990,973,836,767,450],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infetious-disease","tag-bajo","tag-cancer","tag-febril","tag-febrile","tag-identificar","tag-identifying","tag-index","tag-indice","tag-infectious","tag-low","tag-mascc","tag-neutropenic","tag-neutropenico","tag-oncology","tag-pacientes","tag-patients","tag-riesgo","tag-risk","tag-score"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9091,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/9091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}