Successful treatment of Curvularia sp infection in a patient with primarily resistant acute promyelocytic leukemia.
We report a young woman with acute promyelocytic leukemia who showed primary resistance to chemotherapy and who responded to ATRA treatment. During the neutropenic period she developed Curvularia sp infection and was finally successfully consolidated with autologous bone marrow transplantation.
Berlanga
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Servicio de Hematología Clínica, Hospital Duran i Reynals, Ciutat Sanitaria de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain.
Querol
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Gallardo
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Ferra
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Grañena
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D000293:Adolescent; D000666:Amphotericin B / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015473:Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D003904:Mitosporic Fungi; D009181:Mycoses / Q000188:drug therapy*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous
D000666:Amphotericin B