A case of fusariosis in an immunocompromised patient successfully treated with liposomal amphotericin B

Acta Biomedica de l'Ateneo Parmense

Volumn 77, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages 32-35

  Selleslag, Dominik ^a  

^a General Hospital St Jan   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acute leukaemia; Fungal infections; Fusarium; Liposomal amphotericin B

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUDARABINE; IMATINIB; ITRACONAZOLE; MELPHALAN; PROTEIN P190; RITUXIMAB; TENIPOSIDE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUSARIUM SOLANI; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECURRENT INFECTION; SIDE EFFECT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ABSCESS; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYTARABINE; FOOT DERMATOSES; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L2; LIPOSOMES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DISEASES; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PIPERAZINES; PYRIMIDINES; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION; REOPERATION; TENIPOSIDE; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 33845322267     PISSN: 03924203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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