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the Management of Neutropenia in Pediatric Age Groups

- Abbreviations

 

ACKR1

Atypical chemokine receptor 1

Adolopment

Adoption-Adaptation-Development

AGREE II

Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation Instrument

ADAN

ACKR-DARC associated neutropenia

AIN

Autoimmune neutropenia

ALL

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia

AML

Acute myeloid leukemia

ANA

Anti neutrophil antibody

ANC

Absolute neutrophil count.

ASCO

American Society of Clinical Oncology

BM

Bone marrow

BMF

Bone marrow failure

CBC

Complete blood count

CD

Clostridium difficile

CDI

Clostridium difficile infection

CPG

Clinical Practice Guideline

CN

Congenital neutropenia

CRP

C-reactive protein

CSF

Colony stimulating factor

CVC

Central venous catheter

CMV

Cytomegalovirus

CyN

Cyclic neutropenia

DARC

Duffy antigen receptor for chemokine

DHS

Demographic and Health Survey

ds-DNA

Double-stranded DNA

EBV

Epstein-Barr virus

ELANE

Elastase, Neutrophil Expressed

EPG

Egyptian Pediatrics Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee

EPG CPG

EPG Clinical Practice Guideline

ERG

External Review Group

FN

Febrile neutropenia

HNA

Human neutropenia antigen

IFD

Invasive fungal disease

GAG

Guideline Adaptation Group

GAT

Granulocyte agglutination test

G-CSF

Granulocyte colony stimulating factor

G-CSFr

Granulocyte colony stimulating factor receptor

GDG

Guideline Development Group

GIFT

Granulocyte immune-fluorescence test

GPS

Good Practice Statement

GRADE

Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation

GVHD

Graft versus host disease

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus

HSCT

Hematological stem cell transplant

IDSA

Infectious Diseases Society of America

IN

Idiopathic neutropenia

MDS

Myelodysplasia

NAN

Neonatal alloimmune neutropenia

NGS

Next generation sequencing

PB

Peripheral blood

PICO

population, intervention, comparison, and outcomes

PIPOH

 

Patient population, intervention, professionnels, outcomes, and healthcare context

RF

Rheumatoid factor

RIGHT

A Reporting Tool for Practice Guidelines in Health Care

SCN

Severe chronic neutropenia

SDS

Schwachman Diamond syndrome

TCR

T-cell receptor

WES

Whole exome sequencing