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50 HIV-positive patients (CDC stage III to VI) with oral candidiasis proven by culture and typical clinical findings were treated with fluconazole (50 to 100 mg/day) over a period of eight to 22 days. After completion of treatment, clinical signs of oral candidiasis had disappeared in 45/50
OBJECTIVE
To investigate epidemiologic trends, clinical features and outcome of esophageal candidiasis in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy in a prospectively monitored population of HIV-infected children and adolescents followed at the National Cancer Institute.
METHODS
The records of
Fifty-three women with clinical evidence of vaginal candidosis confirmed by culture were entered into an open study. Patients received 400 mg ketoconazole once daily for 5 days. At 2 weeks post-treatment, 49 (92.5%) showed clinical and microbiological remission. The remaining 4 patients received 400
To determine the efficacy and toxicity of two systemically active antifungal agents in the treatment of buccal and oesophageal candidiasis 111 HIV-infected patients with microscopically-confirmed candidiasis were randomized to receive either 200 mg itraconazole once a day or 200 mg ketoconazole
To assess the efficacy and tolerance of fluconazole in the treatment of oesophageal candidiasis, 47 AIDS patients with this infection were enrolled in an open prospective study using fluconazole 100 mg given orally once daily. Clinical cure was obtained in all of 41 evaluable patients, with
Miconazole, a new imidazole antimycotic agent, was given intravenously to five children with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis over an 18-month period. There was marked improvement of mucosa and skin in two patients, moderate-to-milk improvement in two, and no improvement in one. Nail lesions were
A randomized double-blind trial was conducted to assess the local effectiveness and safety of a troche form of clotrimazole in the treatment of oropharyngeal candidiasis in cancer patients. One half of the patients received one 10-mg troche and the other half received one 50-mg troche, five times a
BACKGROUND
It is estimated that as many as 13 million cases of vulvovaginal infection occur in the United States annually, the majority of which are the result of Candida albicans infection. The symptoms of vulvovaginal infections are often painful and distressing to the patient. The objective of
Infectious complications of penile prostheses are unusual even in diabetic patients, and generally involve Staphylococcus or gram-negative enteric organisms. This paper presents a diabetic patient who developed fatal, primary renal candidiasis associated with an infected penile prosthesis. He is the
Sheehan's syndrome and lymphocytic hypophysitis often occur in relation to pregnancy, making their differentiation difficult. We describe a 52-yr-old woman with hypopituitarism, Hashimoto's thyroiditis and candidiasis. She was admitted to our hospital because of nausea, vomiting and constipation.
BACKGROUND
Azole-refractory mucosal candidiasis is a debilitating disease frequently seen in patients who are immunosuppressed as a result of HIV, malignancy, posttransplant immunosuppressive therapy, persistent neutropenia, steroid use, or diabetes. Anidulafungin has potent activity against a broad
BACKGROUND
Oesophageal candidiasis is the most common cause of oesophageal symptoms in patients with AIDS. Antifungal therapy, given as a suspension, may be better tolerated than capsules or tablets in children or patients with oesophageal symptoms. We performed a prospective study of the safety and
Fluconazole is a new oral triazole antifungal with good activity against Candida spp. In this study, we investigated the effectiveness and tolerability of a three-day course of treatment with fluconazole compared with clotrimazole vaginal tablets in nonpregnant women with acute Candida vaginitis. Of
Several antifungal regimens had failed to relieve severe, recurrent esophageal candidiasis in a 75 year old woman without predisposing disease whose serum transiently inhibited the candidacidal capacity of her polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Treatment with oral nystatin suspension was unsuccessful,
A vaccine has been prepared with ribosomes of Candida albicans serotypes a and b plus, as adjuvant, membrane proteoglycan from a nonencapsulated Klebsiella pneumoniae. A preliminary phase II trial without placebo control was conducted in 22 women with a history of frequent recurrences of