Abstract:
:While anti-cancer chemotherapy has improved the survival of patients with hematologic malignancies, it has also exposed such patients to the risk of life-threatening infection due to neutropenia. In intensive chemotherapy for leukemia, invasive aspergillosis resulting in death is infrequently observed. In such cases, aggressive diagnostic and therapeutic intervention is required. Herein, we report a case of Aspergillus liver abscesses in a patient with acute monoblastic leukemia. The patient presented with febrile neutropenia and concomitantly with an elevated serum beta-D: -glucan level during chemotherapy. The abscesses were finally diagnosed by liver biopsy. Although antifungal monotherapy of voriconazole or liposomal amphotericin B, both of which are recommended for invasive aspergillosis, showed a poor response, when combined with micafungin, an echinocandin, both had a highly favorable effect against the infection. Therefore, our clinical experience suggests that the serum test is useful for the rapid diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis, especially in deep tissues, and that combination antifungal therapy with micafungin should be considered when initial monotherapy for fungal infection shows an insufficient effect.
journal_name
Int J Hematoljournal_title
International journal of hematologyauthors
Yamada R,Horikawa K,Ishihara S,Hoshino K,Kawaguchi T,Iyama K,Mitsuya H,Asou Ndoi
10.1007/s12185-010-0556-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-05-01 00:00:00pages
711-5issue
4eissn
0925-5710issn
1865-3774journal_volume
91pub_type
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