Diagnosing invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in ICU patients: putting the puzzle together

S Blot, J Rello, D Koulenti - Current opinion in critical care, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Immunocompromised patients are at increased risk of … factors that represent a deep
immunocompromised status (Table 1). A … II score among patients with invasive aspergillosis was …

Surgical management of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in immunocompromised patients

K Wong, CM Waters, RK Walesby - European journal of cardio …, 1992 - academic.oup.com
patients with lung disease, for example, tuberculosis. Invasive aspergillosis occurs in
immunocompromised patients who have normal lungs. Mycotic lung sequesters develop in these …

Invasive aspergillosis in glucocorticoid-treated patients

RE Lewis, DP Kontoyiannis - Medical mycology, 2009 - academic.oup.com
… The archetypical pathology of IPA in the glucocorticoid-immunosuppressed host may be
more complex in highly immunosuppressed patients with underlying hematologic malignancy …

Invasive aspergillosis in immunosuppressed patients: potential hazard of hospital building work.

AG Dewhurst, MJ Cooper, SM Khan… - BMJ: British Medical …, 1990 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… and outbreaks of invasive aspergillosis.46We report on three patients who developed invasive
aspergillosis while receiving immunosuppressive … All three patients died. In two of them …

Invasive aspergillosis in patients with AIDS

SH Khoo, DW Denning - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1994 - academic.oup.com
… Recognized risk factors for invasive aspergillosis in non-HlV-infected immunocompromised
patients are neutropenia and prior corticosteroid or cytotoxic chemotherapy for malignant …

Diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis in immunocompromised patients by seminested PCR assay of tissue samples

V Rickerts, G Just-Nübling, F Konrad, J Kern… - European Journal of …, 2006 - Springer
… of zygomycetes and Aspergillus spp. from organ biopsies of 21 immunocompromised
patients. The PCR assays correctly identified five cases of invasive aspergillosis and six cases of …

Current and future therapies for invasive aspergillosis

M Bassetti, D Pecori, P Della Siega, S Corcione… - Pulmonary …, 2015 - Elsevier
… fungal infections have increase worldwide and represent a threat for immunocompromised
patients including HIV-infected, recipients of solid organ and stem cell transplants, and …

Invasive aspergillosis in 2002: an update

D Kontoyiannis, G Bodey - European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and …, 2002 - Springer
… Abstract Despite significant advances in the management of immunosuppressed patients,
invasive aspergillosis remains an important life-threatening complication. In the past two …

Epidemiology of invasive aspergillosis in critically ill patients: clinical presentation, underlying conditions, and outcomes

FS Taccone, AM Van den Abeele, P Bulpa, B Misset… - Critical Care, 2015 - Springer
Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a serious opportunistic infection that mainly affects
immunocompromised patients, such as those with prolonged neutropenia and cancer [1]. As such, …

Current approaches to diagnosis and treatment of invasive aspergillosis

BH Segal, TJ Walsh - American journal of respiratory and critical …, 2006 - atsjournals.org
invasive aspergillosis, a major cause of mortality in highly immunocompromised patients. …
of salvage therapy studies in which patients with invasive aspergillosis could be enrolled after …