Successful Use of Interferon-Gamma for Refractory Disseminated Candida Tropicalis Infection in a Pediatric Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Heterozygous CARD9 Mutation

Successful Treatment of Bilateral Pulmonary Hydatic Cysts in a Child with Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Few data are available about hydatid cysts in patients with malignancy; however, these have rarely been described in association with leukemia. The purpose of this report was to present an unusual case of coexisting leukemia and pulmonary hydatid cysts.This study presented a 13-year-old boy with acute myeloid leukemia who was diagnosed with bilateral pulmonary hydatid cysts after the completion...

Occurrence of Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia in a Patient with Breast Cancer after Chemotherapy

Successful treatment of Candida tropicalis osteomyelitis with Micafungin in a leukemia patient

The incidence of invasive candidal infection is increasing. The widespread use of central intravascular catheters, invasive procedures, immunosuppression, diabetes mellitus, total parenteral nutrition, broad-spectrum antibiotics and drugs abuse predispose patients to the infection. Eye, kidney, liver, skin, cardiac and brain infections are the most common site of invasive candidiasis while vert...

Successful salvage chemotherapy and allogeneic transplantation of an acute myeloid leukemia patient with disseminated Fusarium solani infection

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...

Disseminated Fusarium infection presenting as bilateral endogenous endophthalmitis in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia.

onstrated no signs of infection and laboratory studies did not reveal a source of infection. Scattered cerebral infarction from arterial air emboli was unlikely because no evidence of ischemia was detected on a diffusion-weighted MRI. The timing of cortical blindness in our patient, shortly after inadvertent arterial entry during attempted PICC line placement, and the focal leptomeningeal enhan...