Seval Özen, Halil Özdemir, Esra Çakmak Taşkin, Gül Arga, Hatice Kübra Konca, Hasan Fatih Çakmakli, Şule Haskoloğlu, Emel Okulu, Handan Dinçaslan, Elif Ince, Talia Ileri, Nurdan Taçyildiz, Figen Doğu, Ebru Evren, Ebru Us, Zeynep Ceren Karahan, Suat Fitöz, Tanıl Kendirli, Zarife Kuloğlu, Ercan Tutar, Aydan Ikincioğullari, Emel Ünal, Mehmet Ertem, Erdal Ince, Ergin Çiftçi
Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. In this study, we aimed to present our 10-year IA experience in a single center. Fifty-nine pediatric patients diagnosed with IA were included in the study. The male/female ratio of these patients was 42/17. The median age was 8.75 years. Hematologic malignancy was present in the majority of the patients (40/59, 68%). The mean duration of neutropenia was 18.5 days. Cytosine arabinoside was the most common immunosuppressive therapy directed at T-cells at the time of IA diagnosis...
November 30, 2022: Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases