title: [Analysis of risk factors of patients with chronic liver failure complicated invasive fungal infections].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the risk factors of chronic liver failure (CLF) complicated invasive fungal infections (IFI) and prevention and treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinical data and risk factors of 52 patients with CLF complicated IFI were analyzed retrospectively and were compared with those not complicated IFI. Risk factors were analyzed by chi-square test and Logistic regression test and Ridit test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In 52 patients with CLF complicated IFI, there were 69 fungal infections in different tissue and organs, the most were in oral cavity, but other tissue and organs especially bellows infections were rising. Candida albicans infections were the most, but cryptococcus neoformans infections and aspergillus infections were rising. The risk factors included species of bacteria infections, serum total bilirubin, hospital days, times of antibiotics using, number of invasive operation, species of antibiotics and degrees of ascites. The mortality of patients with CLF complicated IFI were much higher than those not complicated IFI.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients with CLF complicated IFI have poor progress and prognosis. The effective prevent methods are treating primary disease actively, reducing hospital days, detecting patients' body fluids closely, identifying source of infection as early as possible, using antibiotics correctly, reducing or avoiding invasive operation, using immunoactivators and disinfecting air regularly.
authors.affiliation: Ningbo Infectious Diseases Hospital, Zhejiang 315016, China.
authors.forename: Yao-Ren
authors.initials: YR
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Ai-Rong
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D017093:Liver Failure / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009181:Mycoses / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors