PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | neutropenia |
| Symptom | C0026946|fungal infection |
| Sentences | 5 |
| PubMedID- 21449626 | Because of the difficult diagnosis and the significant morbidity and mortality of fungal infections in patients with neutropenia, systemic antifungal agents are used as empiric antifungal therapy in patients with febrile neutropenia who are not responding to antibacterial therapy. |
| PubMedID- 25595699 | It is approved for the prophylaxis of invasive fungal infections in patients with neutropenia or in haematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients undergoing high-dose immunosuppressive therapy for graft-versus-host disease, and for the treatment of fungal infections. |
| PubMedID- 20882524 | We prospectively examined the effect and safety of micafungin against febrile neutropenia with suspected fungal infection in 53 patients (median age, 56 years) who had undergone chemotherapy. |
| PubMedID- 23975584 | Bacterial infections are common in the early stages of neutropenia, with fungal infections emerging if neutropenia persists beyond 7-10 days. |
| PubMedID- 22093149 | Trichosporon fungemia is a rare and fatal fungal infection that occurs in patients with prolonged neutropenia associated with hematologic malignancies. |
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