Hepatosplenic candidiasis: Successful treatment with fluconazole
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Hepatosplenic candidiasis: successful treatment with fluconazole.
PURPOSE To determine if fluconazole is effective treatment for hepatosplenic candidiasis that has not resolved with amphotericin B and flucytosine treatment. PATIENTS AND METHODS Six patients (ages 3 to 44) with acute leukemia and hepatosplenic candidiasis who did not respond to prior antifungal therapy were treated with fluconazole. RESULTS All six patients had fever and three had nausea a...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Medicine
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0002-9343
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(91)90005-i