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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology • Rheumatology • General Rheumatology • Infectious Disease • Pulmonology • Critical Care • Pulmonary Infections • Pediatric Oncology
What is the recommended fungal workup in an immunocompromised patient after 5 days of persistent fever?
Do you involve additional specialists, such as ENT, to further evaluate? Is there a particular algorithm followed by your institution, or is it just determined by the patient?
Answer from: at Community Practice
It is important to obtain a CT chest despite a normal chest x-ray, including in patients with fever and with or without respiratory symptoms. It is not uncommon to see abnormal CT chest findings, with no resp symptoms/signs. Fever may be the only abnormality. In many cases, radiology is more reliabl...
Have not found the fungal markers to be all that h...
I only order B-D-glucan & galactomannan to sho...
CT is helpful, but with variable infiltrates, also...