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Characteristics and outcome of infants with candiduria in neonatal intensive care - a Paediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) study
BACKGROUND: There is limited information in the literature on the presentation and prognosis of candidal urinary tract infection (UTI) in infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). METHODS: This was a prospective cohort study performed in 13 Canadian NICUs. Infants with candidal UTI without...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2788568/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19930662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-183 |
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author | Robinson, Joan L Davies, H Dele Barton, Michelle O'Brien, Karel Simpson, Kim Asztalos, Elizabeth Synnes, Anne Rubin, Earl Le Saux, Nicole Hui, Charles Langley, Joanne M Sauve, Reg de Repentigny, Louis Kovacs, Lajos Tan, Ben Richardson, Susan E |
author_facet | Robinson, Joan L Davies, H Dele Barton, Michelle O'Brien, Karel Simpson, Kim Asztalos, Elizabeth Synnes, Anne Rubin, Earl Le Saux, Nicole Hui, Charles Langley, Joanne M Sauve, Reg de Repentigny, Louis Kovacs, Lajos Tan, Ben Richardson, Susan E |
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description | BACKGROUND: There is limited information in the literature on the presentation and prognosis of candidal urinary tract infection (UTI) in infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). METHODS: This was a prospective cohort study performed in 13 Canadian NICUs. Infants with candidal UTI without extra-renal candidal infection at presentation were enrolled. RESULTS: Thirty infants fit the study criteria. Median birth weight and gestational age were 2595 grams (range 575-4255) and 35 weeks (range 24-41) with 10 infants being < 30 weeks gestation. The most common primary underlying diagnosis was congenital heart disease (n = 10). The median age at initial diagnosis was 16 days (range 6-84 days). Renal ultrasonography findings were compatible with possible fungal disease in 15 of the 26 infants (58%) in whom it was performed. Treatment was variable, but fluconazole and either amphotericin B deoxycholate or lipid-based amphotericin B in combination or sequentially were used most frequently. Extra-renal candidiasis subsequently developed in 4 infants. In 2 of these 4 infants, dissemination happened during prolonged courses of anti-fungal therapy. Three of 9 deaths were considered to be related to candidal infection. No recurrences of candiduria or episodes of invasive candidiasis following treatment were documented. CONCLUSION: Candidal UTI in the NICU population occurs both in term infants with congenital abnormalities and in preterm infants, and is associated with renal parenchymal disease and extra-renal dissemination. A wide variation in clinical approach was documented in this multicenter study. The overall mortality rate in these infants was significant (30%). In one third of the deaths, Candida infection was deemed to be a contributing factor, suggesting the need for antifungal therapy with repeat evaluation for dissemination in infants who are slow to respond to therapy. |
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spelling | pubmed-27885682009-12-04 Characteristics and outcome of infants with candiduria in neonatal intensive care - a Paediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) study Robinson, Joan L Davies, H Dele Barton, Michelle O'Brien, Karel Simpson, Kim Asztalos, Elizabeth Synnes, Anne Rubin, Earl Le Saux, Nicole Hui, Charles Langley, Joanne M Sauve, Reg de Repentigny, Louis Kovacs, Lajos Tan, Ben Richardson, Susan E BMC Infect Dis Research Article BACKGROUND: There is limited information in the literature on the presentation and prognosis of candidal urinary tract infection (UTI) in infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). METHODS: This was a prospective cohort study performed in 13 Canadian NICUs. Infants with candidal UTI without extra-renal candidal infection at presentation were enrolled. RESULTS: Thirty infants fit the study criteria. Median birth weight and gestational age were 2595 grams (range 575-4255) and 35 weeks (range 24-41) with 10 infants being < 30 weeks gestation. The most common primary underlying diagnosis was congenital heart disease (n = 10). The median age at initial diagnosis was 16 days (range 6-84 days). Renal ultrasonography findings were compatible with possible fungal disease in 15 of the 26 infants (58%) in whom it was performed. Treatment was variable, but fluconazole and either amphotericin B deoxycholate or lipid-based amphotericin B in combination or sequentially were used most frequently. Extra-renal candidiasis subsequently developed in 4 infants. In 2 of these 4 infants, dissemination happened during prolonged courses of anti-fungal therapy. Three of 9 deaths were considered to be related to candidal infection. No recurrences of candiduria or episodes of invasive candidiasis following treatment were documented. CONCLUSION: Candidal UTI in the NICU population occurs both in term infants with congenital abnormalities and in preterm infants, and is associated with renal parenchymal disease and extra-renal dissemination. A wide variation in clinical approach was documented in this multicenter study. The overall mortality rate in these infants was significant (30%). In one third of the deaths, Candida infection was deemed to be a contributing factor, suggesting the need for antifungal therapy with repeat evaluation for dissemination in infants who are slow to respond to therapy. BioMed Central 2009-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2788568/ /pubmed/19930662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-183 Text en Copyright ©2009 Robinson et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Robinson, Joan L Davies, H Dele Barton, Michelle O'Brien, Karel Simpson, Kim Asztalos, Elizabeth Synnes, Anne Rubin, Earl Le Saux, Nicole Hui, Charles Langley, Joanne M Sauve, Reg de Repentigny, Louis Kovacs, Lajos Tan, Ben Richardson, Susan E Characteristics and outcome of infants with candiduria in neonatal intensive care - a Paediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) study |
title | Characteristics and outcome of infants with candiduria in neonatal intensive care - a Paediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) study |
title_full | Characteristics and outcome of infants with candiduria in neonatal intensive care - a Paediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) study |
title_fullStr | Characteristics and outcome of infants with candiduria in neonatal intensive care - a Paediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) study |
title_full_unstemmed | Characteristics and outcome of infants with candiduria in neonatal intensive care - a Paediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) study |
title_short | Characteristics and outcome of infants with candiduria in neonatal intensive care - a Paediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) study |
title_sort | characteristics and outcome of infants with candiduria in neonatal intensive care - a paediatric investigators collaborative network on infections in canada (picnic) study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2788568/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19930662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-183 |
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