Does footwear exchange have no influence on the incidence of febrile neutropenia in patients undergoing chemotherapy for hematologic malignancies?
The incidence of febrile neutropenia was not affected by footwear exchange. In hematology units, changing shoes does not appear to affect the rate of infections during neutropenic periods.
The pharmacological administration of acyl-estrone to rats does not result in the accrual of estrone within a wide range of doses, which confirms the safety of this compound. In rats there is a similar relation between the percentage of body lipids and circulating acyl-estrone to that found in humans. Likewise, obese rats showed lower levels of acyl-estrone than expected. The total content of estrone in the bodies of obese rats was also lower than expected from their high lipid content, which suggests that obese rats are deficient in acyl-estrone.