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Septic pulmonary embolism caused by Candida albicans: a fatal complication to bone marrow transplantation
1Department of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, State Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
A fatal course of Candida albicans infected embolism in a 31-year-old woman undergoing bone marrow transplantation due to leukemia is described. C. albicans was continuously cultured from the mucous membranes for 6-8 months after transplantation in spite of local treatment with amphotericin B and mycostatin and systemic treatment with itraconazole.