Mucormycosis Peritonitis: More Than 2 Years of Disease-Free Follow-up After Posaconazole Salvage Therapy After Failure of Liposomal Amphotericin B

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 302-306

  Sedlacek, Martin ^a   Cotter, John G ^a   Suriawinata, Arief A ^a   Kaneko, Thomas M ^a   Zuckerman, Richard A ^a   Parsonnet, Jeffrey ^a   Block, Clay A ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

fungal; Mucor; mucormycosis; Peritoneal dialysis; peritonitis; posaconazole; zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; POSACONAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIPOSOMES; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY, AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 38149051269     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.09.026     Document Type: Article

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