Case report: false positive elevated serum‐galactomannan levels after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation caused by oral nutritional supplements

Positive galactomannan tests in patients who underwent chemotherapy without any clinical signs of a fungal infection should lead the clinician to consideration of a false‐positive test result. Oral nutritional supplements may be a cause, especially in the case of concomitant disturbance of the gastr...

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Autores principales: Rachow, Tobias, Dornaus, Sebastian, Sayer, Herbert G., Hermann, Beate, Hochhaus, Andreas, von Lilienfeld‐Toal, Marie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4856246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27188260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.516
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author Rachow, Tobias
Dornaus, Sebastian
Sayer, Herbert G.
Hermann, Beate
Hochhaus, Andreas
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description Positive galactomannan tests in patients who underwent chemotherapy without any clinical signs of a fungal infection should lead the clinician to consideration of a false‐positive test result. Oral nutritional supplements may be a cause, especially in the case of concomitant disturbance of the gastrointestinal mucosal barrier because of mucositis.
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spelling pubmed-48562462016-05-17 Case report: false positive elevated serum‐galactomannan levels after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation caused by oral nutritional supplements Rachow, Tobias Dornaus, Sebastian Sayer, Herbert G. Hermann, Beate Hochhaus, Andreas von Lilienfeld‐Toal, Marie Clin Case Rep Case Reports Positive galactomannan tests in patients who underwent chemotherapy without any clinical signs of a fungal infection should lead the clinician to consideration of a false‐positive test result. Oral nutritional supplements may be a cause, especially in the case of concomitant disturbance of the gastrointestinal mucosal barrier because of mucositis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4856246/ /pubmed/27188260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.516 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Hermann, Beate
Hochhaus, Andreas
von Lilienfeld‐Toal, Marie
Case report: false positive elevated serum‐galactomannan levels after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation caused by oral nutritional supplements
title Case report: false positive elevated serum‐galactomannan levels after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation caused by oral nutritional supplements
title_full Case report: false positive elevated serum‐galactomannan levels after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation caused by oral nutritional supplements
title_fullStr Case report: false positive elevated serum‐galactomannan levels after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation caused by oral nutritional supplements
title_full_unstemmed Case report: false positive elevated serum‐galactomannan levels after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation caused by oral nutritional supplements
title_short Case report: false positive elevated serum‐galactomannan levels after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation caused by oral nutritional supplements
title_sort case report: false positive elevated serum‐galactomannan levels after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation caused by oral nutritional supplements
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4856246/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.516
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