Candidemia in intensive care patients. Risk factors and mortality;Candidemia nei pazienti ricoverati in terapia intensiva. Fattori di rischio e mortalità

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 70, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 63-69

  Piazza, O ^a   Boccia, M C ^a   Iasiello, A ^a   Storti, M P ^a   Tufano, R ^a   Triassi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Candidiasis; Nutrition disorders; Prognosis; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANCER; CANDIDIASIS; CENTRAL VEIN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLONY FORMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEUTROPENIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLENECTOMY; STEROID THERAPY; SURVIVAL; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; INTENSIVE CARE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 2942668779     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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