Successful treatment of systemic Geotrichum capitatum infection by liposomal amphotericin-b, itraconazole, and voriconazole in a Japanese man

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2499-2503

  Ikuta, Katsuya ^a   Torimoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Masayo ^a   Okamura, Naoka ^a   Hosoki, Takaaki ^a   Sato, Kazuya ^a   Fujiya, Mikihiro ^a   Kohgo, Yutaka ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acure myelogeneous leukemia (AML); Amphotericin B; Geotrichum capitatum; Itraconazole; References; Voriconazole

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BETA GLUCAN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTARABINE; FERRITIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUOROURACIL; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; IDARUBICIN; ITRACONAZOLE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MICAFUNGIN; MITOXANTRONE; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLAST CELL; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DIPODASCUS CAPITATUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPLASIA; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GEOTRICHOSIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; JAPANESE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEGALOCYTOSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA; PROPHYLAXIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH EXCESS BLASTS; SIDE EFFECT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GEOTRICHOSIS; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYRIMIDINES; REMISSION INDUCTION; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 78549281460     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3887     Document Type: Article

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