Successful treatment of disseminated mixed invasive fungal infection after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severe aplastic anemia

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Weng, Te Fu ^a   Ho, Mao Wang ^a   Lin, Hsiao Chuan ^a   Lu, Meng Yao ^b   Peng, Ching Tien ^a,c   Wu, Kang Hsi ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

aplastic anemia; aspergillosis; hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUCONAZOLE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; POSACONAZOLE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VANCOMYCIN;

APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NEPHRECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCYTOPENIA; RHIZOPUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLENECTOMY; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

ANEMIA, APLASTIC; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; RHIZOPUS; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 84863245891     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2010.01406.x     Document Type: Article

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