Caspofungin as salvage monotherapy for invasive aspergillosis in patients with haematological malignancies or following allogeneic stem cell transplantation: efficacy and concomitant cyclosporin A

Efficacy and toxicity of caspofungin in

Efficacy and toxicity of caspofungin in combination with liposomal amphotericin B as primary or salvage treatment of invasive aspergillosis in patients with hematologic malignancies

✍ Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis; Ray Hachem; Russell E. Lewis; Gustavo A. Rivero; Harr 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 89 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Caspofungin (CAS) as salvage therapy for refractory invasive aspergillosis (IA) had a response rate of 45% among a heterogeneous group of patients. The use of CAS with other agents is appealing given its unique mechanism of action. Therefore, the authors retrospectively e