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Trial reportEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology1994

Efficacy and safety of fluconazole in the treatment of systemic fungal infections in pediatric patients. Multicentre Study Group.

E Presterl, W Graninger

Abstract readClinical TrialMulticenter Study
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Trial report in European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology, 1994. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Safety of fluconazole in paediatrics: a systematic review.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2013
    Pooled it
  2. Safety and tolerability of fluconazole in children.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 1999
    Pooled it
  3. Large-scale multicentre study of fluconazole in the treatment of hospitalised patients with fungal infections. Multicentre European Study Group.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 1997
    Trial
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

E PresterlDepartment of Medicine I, University of Vienna, Austria.
W Graninger
University of Vienna · ATVienna General Hospital · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a non-comparative multicentre trial 51 patients aged 24 days to 17 years received treatment with intravenous or oral fluconazole for suspected systemic fungal infections. Twenty-seven patients had confirmed infections, 26 being confirmed mycologically and 1 histologically. All isolates were Candida species. Of the 43 clinically assessed patients, 30 were considered cured, 7 improved and 6 experienced failure of therapy. Of 27 patients with confirmed fungal infections, 25 were assessed mycologically and all but one were considered cured. Of the six patients experiencing clinical failure, two had a confirmed infection and only one of these experienced mycological failure. This patient had a primary diagnosis of candidemia with persistence of Candida albicans and Candida parapsilosis. All 51 patients were evaluable for safety. No treatment-related adverse events required termination of treatment. Treatment-related side effects (diarrhea, vomiting, deafness) were reported by three of 51 patients, three patients had laboratory test abnormalities possibly related to fluconazole treatment, including elevation of liver enzyme levels and of the eosinophil count. Results of this study confirm the efficacy and safety of fluconazole in the treatment of pediatric patients with severe fungal infection.

Indexed as

AdolescentAge FactorsAIDS-Related Opportunistic InfectionsCandidaCandidiasisChildChild, PreschoolFemaleFluconazoleFungemiaHumansImmunocompromised HostInfantInfant, NewbornMaleRisk FactorsFluconazole

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PMID8070445
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