Abstract
The surge of COVID-19 associated Mucormycosis (CAM) in India during the second wave of COVID-19 led to lack of availability of amphotericin B(AmB). We retrospectively evaluated the outcome in 28 consecutive patients with CAM who received posaconazole (PCZ) or isavuconazole (ISVCZ) as sole or predominant therapy, based on factors like availability, affordability, site of infection or lack of treatment response. Therapeutic drug monitoring was used for PCZ in all cases & for ISVCZ in some cases. Higher trough levels were aimed to ensure therapeutic effect. Overall, 16 patients were cured, 5 patients improved, 6 patients died, of which 2 deaths were attributable to mucormycosis and 1 patient was lost to follow-up. The outcomes and survival were comparable to those reported in the literature. Although wider applicability of these results cannot be assumed, it leads to a speculation that treatment of mucormycosis with PCZ or ISVCZ, without AmB, is possible.
Keywords: AmB; CAM; COVID-19; Fungal infection; Isavuconazole; Posaconazole.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, CAM, Fungal infection, isavuconazole, AmB, Posaconazole., 【초록키워드】 Treatment, therapy, India, Infection, outcome, survival, Mucormycosis, Patient, death, second wave, Follow-up, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Posaconazole, Factor, Treatment response, therapeutic effect, applicability, was used, lack, reported, evaluated, comparable, predominant, cured, assumed, consecutive patient, patients died, 【제목키워드】 Mucormycosis, retrospective, Posaconazole, antifungal therapy, case sery, predominant,