Related Experiment Videos
Chemoprophylaxis for pulmonary aspergillosis during intensive chemotherapy
F Cowie1, S T Meller, P Cushing
1Children's Department, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|February 1, 1994
Abstract:
Three children who developed pulmonary aspergillosis while being treated for leukaemia or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Each child continued with intensive myelosuppressive chemotherapy regimens during the infection and each was successfully treated with antifungal prophylaxis based on itraconazole by mouth. Amphotericin B was also given during periods of severe neutropenia. No reactivation of the fungal infection was seen.