Septic shock in coccidioidomycosis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 62-65

  Arsura, Edward L ^a,b   Bellinghausen, Pamela L ^a,b   Kilgore, William B ^a,b   Abraham, Jennifer J ^a,b   Johnson, Royce H ^a,b  

^a KERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphotericin B; Azoles; Coccidioidomycosis; Cytokines; Epidemic; Hemodymamics; Kern County; Mortality; Septic shock

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SHOCK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SPUTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031974414     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199801000-00017     Document Type: Article

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