Candida albicans endocarditis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A dreaded complication of intensive chemotherapy

Candida endocarditis is a rare entity during febrile neutropenia due to early introduction of empirical antifungal therapy. Early surgical intervention has diagnostic and therapeutic importance in Candida endocarditis. We report a case of Candida albicans endocarditis in a child with acute lymphobla...

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Autores principales: Chaudhary, Narendra, Vishwanath, Manini, Pahuja, Mohit, Borker, Anupama
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3715975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23878484
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.113414
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author Chaudhary, Narendra
Vishwanath, Manini
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Borker, Anupama
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description Candida endocarditis is a rare entity during febrile neutropenia due to early introduction of empirical antifungal therapy. Early surgical intervention has diagnostic and therapeutic importance in Candida endocarditis. We report a case of Candida albicans endocarditis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia on chemotherapy. The role of surgical intervention is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-37159752013-07-22 Candida albicans endocarditis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A dreaded complication of intensive chemotherapy Chaudhary, Narendra Vishwanath, Manini Pahuja, Mohit Borker, Anupama Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol Case Report Candida endocarditis is a rare entity during febrile neutropenia due to early introduction of empirical antifungal therapy. Early surgical intervention has diagnostic and therapeutic importance in Candida endocarditis. We report a case of Candida albicans endocarditis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia on chemotherapy. The role of surgical intervention is discussed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3715975/ /pubmed/23878484 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.113414 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chaudhary, Narendra
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Candida albicans endocarditis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A dreaded complication of intensive chemotherapy
title Candida albicans endocarditis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A dreaded complication of intensive chemotherapy
title_full Candida albicans endocarditis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A dreaded complication of intensive chemotherapy
title_fullStr Candida albicans endocarditis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A dreaded complication of intensive chemotherapy
title_full_unstemmed Candida albicans endocarditis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A dreaded complication of intensive chemotherapy
title_short Candida albicans endocarditis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A dreaded complication of intensive chemotherapy
title_sort candida albicans endocarditis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a dreaded complication of intensive chemotherapy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3715975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23878484
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.113414
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