Successful treatment of Candida spp. encephalitis occurring under Caspofungin treatment after allogeneic stem cell transplantation

Ann Hematol. 2009 Jan;88(1):93-4. doi: 10.1007/s00277-008-0551-3. Epub 2008 Jul 31.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Candidiasis / diagnosis
  • Candidiasis / drug therapy*
  • Candidiasis / pathology
  • Caspofungin
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Echinocandins / therapeutic use*
  • Encephalitis / diagnosis
  • Encephalitis / drug therapy*
  • Encephalitis / microbiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / therapy
  • Lipopeptides
  • Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation*
  • Transplantation, Homologous

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents
  • Echinocandins
  • Lipopeptides
  • Caspofungin