References
Blade J, Lopez-Guillermo A, Rozman C, Grañena A, Bruguera M, Bordas J, Cervantes F, Carreras E, Sierra J, Montserrat E (1992) Chronic systemic candidiasis in acute-leukemia. Ann Hematol 64(5):240–244
Voneiff M et al (1990) Hepatosplenic candidiasis, a late manifestation of Candida septicemia in neutropenic patients with hematologic malignancies. Blutalkohol 60(4):242–248
Garey KW, Rege M, Pai MP, Mingo DE, Suda KJ, Turpin RS, Bearden DT (2006) Time to initiation of fluconazole therapy impacts mortality in patients with candidemia: a multi-institutional study. Clin Infect Dis 43(1):25–31
Odabasi Z et al (2004) Beta-D-glucan as a diagnostic adjunct for invasive fungal infections: validation, cutoff development, and performance in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome. Clin Infect Dis 39(2):199–205
Metser U, Haider MA, Dill-Macky M, Atri M, Lockwood G, Minden M (2005) Fungal liver infection in immunocompromised patients: depiction with multiphasic contrast-enhanced helical CT. Radiology 235(1):97–105
De Pauw B et al (2008) Revised definitions of invasive fungal disease from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Invasive Fungal Infections Cooperative Group and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group (EORTC/MSG) Consensus Group. Clin Infect Dis 46(12):1813–1821
Ruhnke M, Böhme A, Buchheidt D, Cornely O, Donhuijsen K, Einsele H, Enzensberger R, Hebart H, Heussel CP, Horger M, Hof H, Karthaus M, Krüger W, Maschmeyer G, Penack O, Ritter J, Schwartz S, Infectious Diseases Working Party in Haematology and Oncology of the German Society for Haematology and Oncology (2012) Diagnosis of invasive fungal infections in hematology and oncology-guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Working Party in Haematology and Oncology of the German Society for Haematology and Oncology (AGIHO). Ann Oncol 23(4):823–833
Picardi M, Pagliuca S, Chiurazzi F, Iula D, Catania M, Rossano F, Pane F (2012) Early ultrasonographic finding of septic thrombophlebitis is the main indicator of central venous catheter removal to reduce infection-related mortality in neutropenic patients with bloodstream infection. Ann Oncol 23:2122–2128
Picardi M, Soricelli A, Grimaldi F, Nicolai E, Gallamini A, Pane F (2011) Fused FDG–PET/contrast-enhanced CT detects occult subdiaphragmatic involvement of Hodgkin’s lymphoma thereby identifying patients requiring six cycles of anthracycline-containing chemotherapy and consolidation radiation of spleen. Ann Oncol 22:671–680
Tissot, F., et al. (2013) beta-glucan antigenemia anticipates diagnosis of blood culture-negative intraabdominal candidiasis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 188(9): p. 1100–9
Della Pepa R et al (2016) Successful management of chronic disseminated candidiasis in hematologic patients treated with high-dose liposomal amphotericin B: a retrospective study of the SEIFEM registry. Support Care Cancer 24(9):3839–3845
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Ethics declarations
Conflict of interest
The corresponding author has full control of all primary data and agrees to allow the journal to review their data if requested.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Della Pepa, R., Cerchione, C., Pugliese, N. et al. Diagnostic-driven antifungal approach in neutropenic patients at high risk for chronic disseminated candidiasis: preliminary observations on the role of 1,3-β-D-glucan antigenemia and multiphasic contrast-enhanced computed tomography. Support Care Cancer 26, 1691–1694 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-018-4138-9
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-018-4138-9