Treatment of mycotic infections after haemopoietic progenitor cell transplantation with liposomal amphotericin-B

Bone Marrow Transplant. 1998 Dec:22 Suppl 4:S10-3.

Abstract

115 patients undergoing allogeneic or autologous bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation were treated empirically or for documented fungal infection with liposomal amphotericin-B in doses up to 10mg/kg bodyweight for a duration up to 61 days. The therapy was excellent tolerated and clinical side effects occurred in only eight patients. The drug had to be withdrawn in one episode. A significant influence of liposomal amphotericin-B on laboratory parameters was not observed. Creatinine increased under therapy from a median base point of 1,0 (0,2-3,5) mg/dl to the upper normal value of 1,4 (0,4-4,2) mg/dl. Heavy increases of creatinine as well as of bilirubin, OT and PT were mostly associated with GvHD or regimen related toxicity. Considering the high-risk state of the patients the overall response rate was favourable with 62,9%. However, despite administration of liposomal amphotericin-B culture-proven mycoses were associated with a high morbidity (93,3%). Only one of fourteen patients was cured from Candida lambica septicaemia. We conclude that the antimycotic therapy with liposomal amphotericin-B has a low incidence of side effects. This should, considering the high mortality of fungal infections in BMT recipients, encourage investigators to perform dose escalating studies against the conventional formulation.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Amphotericin B / therapeutic use*
  • Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Leukemia / complications
  • Leukemia / therapy
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycoses / complications
  • Mycoses / drug therapy*

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents
  • liposomal amphotericin B
  • Amphotericin B