Antifungal therapy in patients with fever and neutropenia--more rational and less empirical?

N Engl J Med. 2004 Sep 30;351(14):1445-7. doi: 10.1056/NEJMe048203.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Amphotericin B / administration & dosage
  • Amphotericin B / therapeutic use*
  • Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Caspofungin
  • Echinocandins
  • Fever / etiology
  • Humans
  • Lipopeptides
  • Liposomes
  • Mycoses / drug therapy*
  • Mycoses / prevention & control
  • Neoplasms / complications
  • Neoplasms / therapy
  • Neutropenia / etiology
  • Peptides / therapeutic use*
  • Peptides, Cyclic*
  • Pyrimidines / therapeutic use
  • Triazoles / therapeutic use
  • Voriconazole

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents
  • Echinocandins
  • Lipopeptides
  • Liposomes
  • Peptides
  • Peptides, Cyclic
  • Pyrimidines
  • Triazoles
  • Amphotericin B
  • Caspofungin
  • Voriconazole