Early catheter removal improves patient survival in peritoneal dialysis patients with fungal peritonitis: Results of ninety-four episodes of fungal peritonitis at a single center

Peritoneal Dialysis International

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-66

  Chang, Tae Ik ^a   Kim, Hyun Wook ^b   Park, Jung Tak ^a   Lee, Dong Hyung ^a   Lee, Ju Hyun ^a   Yoo, Tae Hyun ^a   Kang, Shin Wook ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Wonkwang University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Early catheter removal; Fungal peritonitis; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CATHETER REMOVAL; CHROMOMYCES; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; FUNGAL PERITONITIS; FUNGUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOULD; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENICILLIUM; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT DURATION; TRICHOSPORON; YEAST; ZYGOMYCETES; DEVICE REMOVAL; INDWELLING CATHETER; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSIS; TIME;

CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 82455178871     PISSN: 08968608     EISSN: 17184304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3747/pdi.2009.00057     Document Type: Article

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