학술논문
Combined medico-surgical strategy for invasive sino-orbito-cerebral breakthrough fungal infection with Hormographiella aspergillata in an acute leukaemia patient.
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Article
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Subject
*ASPERGILLOSIS
*ACUTE myeloid leukemia
*GRAFT versus host disease
*HEMATOPOIETIC stem cell transplantation
*ECHINOCANDINS
*PATIENTS
*BREAKTHROUGH infections
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ISSN
0933-7407
Abstract
Hormographiella aspergillata is a rare causative agent of invasive filamentous breakthrough infection, mostly arising after echinocandin exposure. We report a neutropenic patient who developed a severe sino-orbito-cerebral H. aspergillata infection while receiving empirical caspofungin, successfully controlled by an aggressive strategy associating surgical debridement and combined high-dose regimen of antifungal drugs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]