TY - JOUR
T1 - Successful salvage chemotherapy and allogeneic transplantation of an acute myeloid leukemia patient with disseminated Fusarium solani infection
AU - Sheela, Sheenu
AU - Ito, Sawa
AU - Strich, Jeffrey R.
AU - Manion, Maura
AU - Montemayor-Garcia, Celina
AU - Wang, Hao Wei
AU - Oetjen, Karolyn A.
AU - West, Kamile A.
AU - Barrett, Austin J.
AU - Parta, Mark
AU - Gea-Banacloche, Juan
AU - Holland, Steven M.
AU - Hourigan, Christopher S.
AU - Lai, Catherine
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Disseminated Fusarium infection is associated with high mortality in immunocompromised patients. Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) often have an extended duration of neutropenia during intensive induction chemotherapy, consolidation chemotherapy, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT). There is no consensus regarding management of invasive disseminated Fusarium infections in the setting of prolonged neutropenia (Tortorano et al., 2014) [1]. We report a case of disseminated Fusarium in a patient with relapsed AML who underwent successful chemotherapy and haplo-identical allogeneic SCT with administration of granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) and granulocyte infusions.
AB - Disseminated Fusarium infection is associated with high mortality in immunocompromised patients. Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) often have an extended duration of neutropenia during intensive induction chemotherapy, consolidation chemotherapy, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT). There is no consensus regarding management of invasive disseminated Fusarium infections in the setting of prolonged neutropenia (Tortorano et al., 2014) [1]. We report a case of disseminated Fusarium in a patient with relapsed AML who underwent successful chemotherapy and haplo-identical allogeneic SCT with administration of granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) and granulocyte infusions.
KW - Acute myeloid leukemia
KW - Allogenic transplant
KW - Fusarium solani
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U2 - 10.1016/j.lrr.2017.07.001
DO - 10.1016/j.lrr.2017.07.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 28794968
AN - SCOPUS:85025679435
SN - 2213-0489
VL - 8
SP - 4
EP - 6
JO - Leukemia Research Reports
JF - Leukemia Research Reports
ER -