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List of works by Roland A Ammann

A prospective multicenter study of microbiologically defined infections in pediatric cancer patients with fever and neutropenia: Swiss Pediatric Oncology Group 2003 fever and neutropenia study.

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A psychoeducational intervention reduces the need for anesthesia during radiotherapy for young childhood cancer patients

scientific article published on 4 June 2008

Adolescent survivors of childhood cancer: are they vulnerable for psychological distress?

scientific article published on 11 February 2013

Bacteria causing bacteremia in pediatric cancer patients presenting with febrile neutropenia--species distribution and susceptibility patterns

scientific article published on 12 April 2013

Bad news in oncology: which are the right words?

scientific article published on 28 January 2005

Bloodstream infection in paediatric cancer centres--leukaemia and relapsed malignancies are independent risk factors

scientific article published on 26 March 2015

Butyrate increases intracellular calcium levels and enhances growth hormone release from rat anterior pituitary cells via the G-protein-coupled receptors GPR41 and 43

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Cardiopulmonary bypass reduces atrial Na+-K+-ATPase expression in children

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Cause-specific long-term mortality in survivors of childhood cancer in Switzerland: A population-based study

scientific article published on 07 March 2016

Changes in antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli causing urinary tract infections in hospitalized children

scientific article published in March 2005

Childhood cancer and residential exposure to highways: a nationwide cohort study

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Clustering of health behaviours in adult survivors of childhood cancer and the general population

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Conductivity determined by a new sweat analyzer compared with chloride concentrations for the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis

scientific article published in February 2005

Congenital H-ficolin deficiency in premature infants with severe necrotising enterocolitis

scientific article published on 22 October 2010

Congenital hepatoblastoma: a distinct entity?

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Core outcomes and definitions for pediatric fever and neutropenia research: a consensus statement from an international panel

scientific article published on 28 November 2014

Criminal behavior in males with affective disorders.

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Defibrotide for hepatic VOD in children: exact statistics can help!

scientific article published in August 2004

Deficiency of mannose-binding lectin-associated serine protease-2 associated with increased risk of fever and neutropenia in pediatric cancer patients

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Diagnostic procedures and management of Fever in pediatric cancer patients

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Different fever definitions and the rate of fever and neutropenia diagnosed in children with cancer: a retrospective two-center cohort study

scientific article published on 28 November 2012

Does diagnostic delay result in decreased survival in paediatric brain tumours?

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Effects of high-yield thrombocytapheresis on the quality of platelet products

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Exploring the association of hemoglobin level and adverse events in children with cancer presenting with fever in neutropenia

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Failure of voriconazole to cure disseminated zygomycosis in an immunocompromised child

scientific article published on 5 January 2005

Failure to identify a male winter-born schizophrenia subgroup clinically

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Fever in neutropenia in children and adolescents: evolution over time of main characteristics in a single center, 1993-2001.

scientific article published on 8 July 2004

First-day step-down to oral outpatient treatment versus continued standard treatment in children with cancer and low-risk fever in neutropenia. A randomized controlled trial within the multicenter SPOG 2003 FN study

scientific article published on 23 January 2012

Gender modulates the expression of calcium-regulating proteins in pediatric atrial myocardium

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Good agreement between capillary and venous sampling for lectin pathway proteins

scientific article published on 07 June 2012

Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-responsive chronic neutropenia in cartilage-hair hypoplasia

scientific article published in June 2004

Guideline for the Management of Fever and Neutropenia in Children With Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Recipients: 2017 Update.

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H-ficolin serum concentration and susceptibility to fever and neutropenia in paediatric cancer patients

scientific article published on July 2009

Healthcare-associated infections in pediatric cancer patients: results of a prospective surveillance study from university hospitals in Germany and Switzerland

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Higher cord blood levels of mannose-binding lectin-associated serine protease-2 in infants with necrotising enterocolitis

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Hospitalized children with respiratory syncytial virus infection and neuromuscular impairment face an increased risk of a complicated course

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Identification of children presenting with fever in chemotherapy‐induced neutropenia at low risk for severe bacterial infection

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

In pediatric lymphoblastic leukemia of B-cell origin, a small population of primitive blast cells is noncycling, suggesting them to be leukemia stem cell candidates

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Individual timing of blood counts in G-CSF prophylaxis after myelosuppressive chemotherapy reduces G-CSF injections, blood counts, and costs: a prospective randomized study in children and adolescents

scientific article published on 29 May 2002

Interventions aiming to reduce time to antibiotics (TTA) in patients with fever and neutropenia during chemotherapy for cancer (FN), a systematic review

scientific article published on 05 September 2019

Long-term pulmonary disease among Swiss childhood cancer survivors.

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Low risk episodes of fever and neutropenia in pediatric oncology: Is outpatient oral antibiotic therapy the new gold standard of care?

scientific article published on September 2005

M-ficolin concentrations in cord blood are related to circulating phagocytes and to early-onset sepsis

scientific article published on 8 February 2012

M-ficolin in children with cancer

scientific article published on 24 September 2010

M-ficolin in the neonatal period: Associations with need for mechanical ventilation and mortality in premature infants with necrotising enterocolitis

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Malnutrition in pediatric patients with cancer at diagnosis and throughout therapy: A multicenter cohort study

scientific article published on 31 December 2012

Management of fever and neutropenia in paediatric cancer patients: room for improvement?

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

Mental disorder and criminality. Male alcoholism

scientific article published in July 1996

Mental disorder and criminality: male schizophrenia

scientific article published in January 1996

Mental disorders and criminal behaviour

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Microalbuminuria in diabetes mellitus: efficacy of a new screening method in comparison with timed overnight urine collection

scientific article published in September 2003

Nanoduct sweat testing for rapid diagnosis in newborns, infants and children with cystic fibrosis

scientific article published on 14 April 2007

Normal values for pancreatic stone protein in different age groups.

scientific article published on 20 November 2015

Nosocomial infection: a risk factor for a complicated course in children with respiratory syncytial virus infection--results from a prospective multicenter German surveillance study

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Obesity in long-term survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

scientific article published on 01 July 2008

Overweight in childhood cancer survivors: the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

scientific article published in January 2018

Population mixing and the risk of childhood leukaemia in Switzerland: a census-based cohort study

scientific article published on 26 May 2015

Predicting adverse events in children with fever and chemotherapy-induced neutropenia: the prospective multicenter SPOG 2003 FN study

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Predicting bacteremia in children with cancer and fever in chemotherapy-induced neutropenia: results of the prospective multicenter SPOG 2003 FN study

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Predicting microbiologically defined infection in febrile neutropenic episodes in children: global individual participant data multivariable meta-analysis

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Prognosis in pediatric hematologic malignancies is associated with serum concentration of mannose-binding lectin-associated serine protease-2 (MASP-2).

scientific article published in July 2009

Progression of pulmonary hyperinflation and trapped gas associated with genetic and environmental factors in children with cystic fibrosis.

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Rapid assessment of cerebral autoregulation by near-infrared spectroscopy and a single dose of phenylephrine.

scientific article published in May 2011

Real-time broad-range PCR versus blood culture. A prospective pilot study in pediatric cancer patients with fever and neutropenia.

scientific article published on March 2007

Real-time quantitative broad-range PCR assay for detection of the 16S rRNA gene followed by sequencing for species identification

scientific article published on August 2006

Reduced atrial connexin43 expression after pediatric heart surgery

scientific article published on 06 February 2006

Reproducibility of the blood flow index as noninvasive, bedside estimation of cerebral blood flow

scientific article published on 21 January 2003

Respiratory syncytial virus infection in 406 hospitalized premature infants: results from a prospective German multicentre database

scientific article published on 16 February 2007

Restricted use of glycopeptides in paediatric cancer patients with fever and neutropenia.

scientific article published on 12 October 2006

Risk factors for allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and sensitisation to Aspergillus fumigatus in patients with cystic fibrosis

scientific article published on 31 May 2005

Risk prediction of fever in neutropenia in children with cancer: a step towards individually tailored supportive therapy?

scientific article published on December 2008

Risk stratification in febrile neutropenic episodes in adolescent/young adult patients with cancer

scientific article published on 4 July 2016

Safety of ondansetron loading doses in children with cancer

scientific article published on 17 October 2007

Season of birth: comparison of patients with schizophrenia, affective disorders and alcoholism

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

Serious medical complications in children with cancer and fever in chemotherapy-induced neutropenia: results of the prospective multicenter SPOG 2003 FN study

scientific article published on 11 August 2011

Serum C-reactive protein in children with adenovirus infection.

scientific article published on June 2002

Serum Concentrations of Mannan-Binding Lectin (MBL) and MBL-Associated Serine Protease-2 and the Risk of Adverse Events in Pediatric Patients With Cancer and Fever in Neutropenia

scientific article published on 13 February 2013

Serum concentrations of lectin-pathway components in healthy neonates, children and adults: mannan-binding lectin (MBL), M-, L-, and H-ficolin, and MBL-associated serine protease-2 (MASP-2)

scientific article published on 13 January 2011

Serum levels of mannose-binding lectin and the risk of fever in neutropenia pediatric cancer patients.

scientific article published on July 2007

Sodium pump reduction correlates with aortic clamp time in pediatric heart surgery

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Spatial clustering of childhood cancers in Switzerland: a nationwide study

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Spatial clustering of childhood leukaemia in Switzerland: A nationwide study.

scientific article published on 13 June 2017

Surveillance of bloodstream infections in pediatric cancer centers - what have we learned and how do we move on?

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Taurolidine-citrate lock solution (TauroLock) significantly reduces CVAD-associated grampositive infections in pediatric cancer patients

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Temperatures, diagnostics and treatment in pediatric cancer patients with fever in neutropenia, NCT01683370

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Temporal association between childhood leukaemia and population growth in Swiss municipalities

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Temporal trends in incidence of childhood cancer in Switzerland, 1985-2014

scientific article published on 04 July 2019

The influence of different fever definitions on the rate of fever in neutropenia diagnosed in children with cancer

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The prognostic significance of cytogenetic aberrations in childhood acute myeloid leukaemia. A study of the Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group (SPOG)

scientific article published on 05 April 2007

The reporting of outcomes in studies of fever and neutropenia in children with cancer: time for consensus.

scientific article published on 29 June 2013

Transfusion efficacy of ABO major-mismatched platelets (PLTs) in children is inferior to that of ABO-identical PLTs

scientific article published on 4 September 2008

Transfusion efficacy of apheresis platelet concentrates irradiated at the day of transfusion is significantly superior compared to platelets irradiated in advance

scientific article published on 12 May 2014

Two methods of authenticating past criminal conduct by psychiatric inpatients: a comparison of clinical chart reports and criminal records

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Use of linezolid in neonatal and pediatric inpatient facilities--results of a retrospective multicenter survey

scientific article published on 3 November 2011

Ventilation inhomogeneities in relation to standard lung function in patients with cystic fibrosis

scientific article published on 5 November 2004