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Chronic disseminated candidiasis complicated with a ruptured intracranial fungal aneurysm in ALL
Teppei Okawa, Toshiaki Ono, Akifumi Endo, Masatoshi Takagi, Masayuki Nagasawa, Department of Developmental Biology, Post Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan
Teppei Okawa, Masayuki Nagasawa, Department of Hematology Oncology and Immunology, Tokyo Bay Urayasu/Ichikawa Medical Center, Chiba 279-0001, Japan
Author contributions: Okawa T and Nagasawa M designed the report; Okawa T, Ono T, Endo A and Takagi M collected the patient’s clinical data; Okawa T, and Nagasawa M analyzed the data and wrote the paper.
Supported by The Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from Ministry of Education, Science and Culture Japan, No. 24591541 to Masayuki Nagasawa
Correspondence to: Masayuki Nagasawa, MD, PhD, Department of Developmental Biology, Post Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 5-45, Yushima 1-chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan. mnagasawa.ped@tmd.ac.jp
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Received: September 30, 2013
Revised: December 23, 2013
Accepted: January 17, 2014
Published online: May 6, 2014
Revised: December 23, 2013
Accepted: January 17, 2014
Published online: May 6, 2014
Core Tip
Core tip: Chronic disseminated candidiasis and resulting fungal intracranial aneurysm is a life-threatening complication during the induction therapy of leukemia with a poor survival rate. However, intensive and patient anti-fungal treatment made the patient receive unrelated bone marrow transplantation successfully.