ALLMedicine™ Aspergillosis Center

Sep 15th, 2021 - We performed an observational study to investigate intensive care unit incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of coronavirus disease-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA). We found 10%-15% CAPA incidence among 823 patients in 2 cohorts. Several...

Sep 14th, 2021 - Aspergillus fumigatus causes a series of invasive diseases, including the high-mortality invasive aspergillosis, and has been a serious global health threat because of its increased resistance to the first-line clinical triazoles. We analyzed the ...

Sep 11th, 2021 - Whether a combination of glucocorticoid and antifungal triazole is superior to glucocorticoid alone, in reducing exacerbations, in patients with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) remains unknown. We aimed to compare the efficacy and s...

Sep 9th, 2021 - Background The literature regarding COVID-19 associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) has shown conflicting observations, including survival of CAPA patients not receiving antifungal therapy and discrepancy between CAPA diagnosis and autopsy find...

Sep 9th, 2021 - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 has caused a devastating pandemic lasting for more than a year. To date, 47 million individuals have been infected and 1.2 million individuals have died worldwide. Some of the most important coinfect...

Aug 31st, 2019 - Background: Fungal infections are of increasing incidence and importance in immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients. Timely diagnosis relies on appropriate use of laboratory testing in susceptible patients.Methods: The relevant literature r...

Jun 4th, 2019 - Presenting symptoms, distributions and patterns of diseases and vulnerability to invasive aspergillosis (IA) are similar between children and adults. However, differences exist in the epidemiology and underlying conditions, the usefulness of newer...

Sep 8th, 2018 - Voriconazole (VRZ) is a second-generation triazole antifungal agent with broad-spectrum activity. It is available in both intravenous and oral formulations, and is primarily indicated for treating invasive aspergillosis. The most commonly used dos...

Mar 17th, 2018 - The European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, the European Confederation of Medical Mycology and the European Respiratory Society Joint Clinical Guidelines focus on diagnosis and management of aspergillosis. Of the numero...

Dec 25th, 2016 - The European Conference on Infections in Leukemia (ECIL) provides recommendations for diagnostic strategies and prophylactic, pre-emptive or targeted therapy strategies for various types of infection in patients with hematologic malignancies or he...

Feb 23rd, 2011 - Invasive aspergillosis is a serious and often fatal infection in patients who are neutropenic or have undergone solid organ or stem cell transplantation. However, early diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis is a challenge. Reiss and Lehmann first de...

Jan 27th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Hospitalist Sarah Stone, MD, arrived for her dayshift at Sharp Chula Vista in California one day in late December. The ICU and hospital wards were...

Dec 24th, 2020 - Data from pivotal trials such as CARD and PROfound have led to practice-changing shifts in the treatment of patients with metastatic prostate cancer, according to Joseph Kim, MD, who added that the HERO trial examining the oral gonadotropin-releas...

Nov 19th, 2020 - COVID-Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CAPA)   CAPA is a recently recognized complication of COVID-19. Although aspergillosis is classically associated with severely immunocompromised patients, it is increasingly detected in patients who receiv...

Oct 16th, 2019 - EDINBURGH – Routine empiric prophylaxis against pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PJP) may be unwarranted in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients initiating Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor therapy, a retrospective chart review suggests. Dr.

Oct 15th, 2019 - Among patients with systemic rheumatic diseases, the highest incidence of opportunistic infections was seen in those with polymyositis/dermatomyositis (PM/DM), Taiwanese researchers found. In a nationally representative cohort study, the incidence...