Successful treatment of Curvularia sp infection in a patient with primarily resistant acute promyelocytic leukemia

Bone Marrow Transplant. 1995 Oct;16(4):617-9.

Abstract

We report a young woman with acute promyelocytic leukemia who showed primary resistance to chemotherapy and who responded to ATRA treatment. During the neutropenic period she developed Curvularia sp infection and was finally successfully consolidated with autologous bone marrow transplantation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Amphotericin B / therapeutic use
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / complications
  • Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / therapy*
  • Mitosporic Fungi*
  • Mycoses / drug therapy*
  • Transplantation, Autologous

Substances

  • Amphotericin B