Successful Combined Surgical and Medical Treatment of Fusarium Infection after Bone Marrow Transplantation
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 26 (2) , 225-228
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00365549409011789
Abstract
The usual management of opportunistic fusarium infection in the immunocompromized patient is with systemic antifungals, despite which little impact is made on the mortality which approaches 100%. We describe a case of fusarwm infection of the foot in a bone marrow tranplant reciplent which was successfully managed with local wide excisional surgery and intravenous liposomal amphotericin B.Keywords
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