Hepatic candidiasis: persistent pyrexia in a patient with acute myeloid leukaemia after recovery from consolidation therapy-induced neutropenia.
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Ong, ST; Kueh, YK
Published in: Ann Acad Med Singap
March 1993
Fever, a frequent manifestation in acute leukaemia patients who develop treatment-induced neutropenia, usually resolves when the neutrophil count returns to normal irrespective of whether an infective agent is isolated or not. A persistent pyrexia following neutrophil recovery and associated with multiple negative microbiological cultures should signal a careful search for a deep-seated fungal infection in any leukaemic patient who is complete remission. We report here a 39-year-old Chinese man with acute myeloid leukaemia in first complete remission whose unresolved fever after recovery from consolidation therapy-induced neutropenia was ultimately confirmed to be caused by focal hepatic candidal microabscesses by an open liver biopsy.
Duke Scholars
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Ann Acad Med Singap
ISSN
0304-4602
Publication Date
March 1993
Volume
22
Issue
2
Start / End Page
257 / 260
Location
Singapore
Related Subject Headings
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- Remission Induction
- Neutropenia
- Male
- Liver Diseases
- Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute
- Humans
- General & Internal Medicine
- Focal Infection
- Fluconazole
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Ong, S. T., & Kueh, Y. K. (1993). Hepatic candidiasis: persistent pyrexia in a patient with acute myeloid leukaemia after recovery from consolidation therapy-induced neutropenia. Ann Acad Med Singap, 22(2), 257–260.
Ong, S. T., and Y. K. Kueh. “Hepatic candidiasis: persistent pyrexia in a patient with acute myeloid leukaemia after recovery from consolidation therapy-induced neutropenia.” Ann Acad Med Singap 22, no. 2 (March 1993): 257–60.
Ong ST, Kueh YK. Hepatic candidiasis: persistent pyrexia in a patient with acute myeloid leukaemia after recovery from consolidation therapy-induced neutropenia. Ann Acad Med Singap. 1993 Mar;22(2):257–60.
Ong, S. T., and Y. K. Kueh. “Hepatic candidiasis: persistent pyrexia in a patient with acute myeloid leukaemia after recovery from consolidation therapy-induced neutropenia.” Ann Acad Med Singap, vol. 22, no. 2, Mar. 1993, pp. 257–60.
Ong ST, Kueh YK. Hepatic candidiasis: persistent pyrexia in a patient with acute myeloid leukaemia after recovery from consolidation therapy-induced neutropenia. Ann Acad Med Singap. 1993 Mar;22(2):257–260.
Published In
Ann Acad Med Singap
ISSN
0304-4602
Publication Date
March 1993
Volume
22
Issue
2
Start / End Page
257 / 260
Location
Singapore
Related Subject Headings
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- Remission Induction
- Neutropenia
- Male
- Liver Diseases
- Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute
- Humans
- General & Internal Medicine
- Focal Infection
- Fluconazole