Efficacy and safety of micafungin in the treatment of invasive fungal infections in patients with acute leukemia / 中华传染病杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of micafungin in the treatment of invasive fungal infections (IFI) in patients with acute leukemia.Methods A total of 133 IFI patients with acute leukemia received micafungin 150 mg once daily for 14 days.The clinical and mycological efficacies were evaluated on (7±2) days and(14±2) days of treatment.Meanwhile,the adverse events were recorded.The normally distributed data was compared using analysis of variance and nonnormal distributed data was analyzed using Wilcoxon rank-sum test.Results Among 133 IFI patients with acute leukemia,116 finished the 14-day micafungin treatment.The total clinical efficacy was 94.8% and the total mycological efficacy was 75.0% at (14±2) days of treatment.The fungus eliminate rates were 82.9%,66.7% and 55.6% against Monilia,Aspergillus and others,respectively.The clinical and mycological efficacies of (14±2)-day treatment were both higher than those of (7±2)-day treatment(X2=6.060,34.416.both P<0.05).The clinical efficacy was not related with age,sex,IFI diagnose,types of leukemia and combinative drugs (X2=26.541,P<0.05).The incidence of drug-related adverse events of micafungin was 3%among 133 patients,which included skin rash in 3 eases, diarrhea in 1 case. Only one case was discontinued because of severe skin rash and micafungin was well tolerant in other patients. Conclusion Treatment of micafungin 150 mg daily for 14 days is effective and safe in IFI patients with acute leukemia.