Septic bilateral pulmonary candidiasis successfully treated with anidulafungin therapy in two patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2266-2267

  Falcone, Marco ^a   Accarpio, Fabio ^a   Venditti, Mario ^a   Vena, Antonio ^a   Sibio, Simone ^a   Sammartino, Paolo ^a   Di Giorgio, Angelo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Candidaemia; CVC infection; Echinocandins; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANIDULAFUNGIN; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; MEROPENEM; OXALIPLATIN; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEOANAL ANASTOMOSIS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; NONHUMAN; OMENTECTOMY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERIPHERAL LUNG LESION; PULMONARY CANDIDIASIS; RECTUM RESECTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETINA EXUDATE; SEPSIS; STOMACH CANCER; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDIASIS; CARCINOMA; ECHINOCANDINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957229430     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkq297     Document Type: Letter

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