Abstract
A 21-year-old white male with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) developed an invasive Zygomycosis infection 3 weeks after beginning re-induction chemotherapy. Because of the high risk of fatal recurrence of the fungal infection, neither long-term maintenance chemotherapy nor allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) was considered appropriate. Because his ALL blasts expressed CD34 but lacked CD133, he received a CD133 selected autologous graft following high-dose consolidation chemotherapy. The patient survives in remission 19 months after HSCT.
(c) 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
MeSH terms
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AC133 Antigen
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Amphotericin B / therapeutic use
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Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use
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Antigens, CD / analysis*
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Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / administration & dosage
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Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
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Asparaginase / administration & dosage
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Caspofungin
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Child
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Combined Modality Therapy
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Contraindications
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Dexamethasone / administration & dosage
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Drug Therapy, Combination
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Echinocandins
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Glycoproteins / analysis*
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Humans
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Immunomagnetic Separation
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Lipopeptides
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Male
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Mercaptopurine / administration & dosage
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Methotrexate / administration & dosage
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Peptides / analysis*
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Peptides, Cyclic / therapeutic use
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Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation*
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Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / drug therapy
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Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / surgery*
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Pyrimidines / therapeutic use
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Recurrence
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Remission Induction
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Salvage Therapy*
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Transplantation, Autologous
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Transplantation, Homologous
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Triazoles / therapeutic use
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Vincristine / administration & dosage
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Voriconazole
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Zygomycosis / complications
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Zygomycosis / drug therapy
Substances
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AC133 Antigen
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Antifungal Agents
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Antigens, CD
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Echinocandins
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Glycoproteins
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Lipopeptides
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PROM1 protein, human
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Peptides
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Peptides, Cyclic
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Pyrimidines
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Triazoles
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liposomal amphotericin B
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Vincristine
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posaconazole
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Dexamethasone
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Amphotericin B
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Mercaptopurine
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Asparaginase
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Caspofungin
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Voriconazole
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Methotrexate