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Oliveira,J.S.R.; Kerbauy,F.R.; Colombo,A.L.; Bahia,D.M.M.; Pinheiro,G.S.; Silva,M.R.R.; Ribeiro,M.S.S.; Raineri,G.; Kerbauy,J.. |
Fungal infection is one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in bone marrow transplant (BMT) recipients. The growing incidence of these infections is related to several factors including prolonged granulocytopenia, use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, conditioning regimens, and use of immunosuppression to avoid graft-versus-host disease (GvHD). In the present series, we report five cases of invasive mold infections documented among 64 BMT recipients undergoing fluconazole antifungal prophylaxis: 1) A strain of Scedosporium prolificans was isolated from a skin lesion that developed on day +72 after BMT in a chronic myeloid leukemic patient. 2) Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (Aspergillus fumigatus) was diagnosed on day +29 in a patient... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Bone marrow transplantation; Fungal infections; Fluconazole prophylaxis. |
Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2002000700005 |
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Ribas,C.; Colleoni,G.W.B.; Almeida,M.S.S.; Aguiar,K.C.C.; Silva,M.R.R.; Bordin,J.O.. |
The biologic basis of the negative prognosis of plasmablastic myeloma is not fully understood. To determine whether histologically aggressive multiple myeloma (MM) is associated with a more angiogenic marrow environment, bone marrow samples from 50 recently diagnosed MM patients were evaluated. Twelve percent (6/50) of patients presented plasmablastic MM, and this feature correlated with moderate/strong intensity of vascular endothelial growth factor staining of plasma cells (P = 0.036). Although plasmablastic MM was not associated with increasing of microvessel density, this new evidence of increased expression of vascular endothelial growth factor on plasmablasts suggests that the adverse prognosis conferred by plasmablastic disease may be due, at least... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Multiple myeloma; Angiogenesis; Vascular endothelial growth factor. |
Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2005001100007 |
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