Patients requiring pulmonary consultation with Candida in pulmonary secretions often have chronic sputum production, exacerbations, mucus plugging, atelectasis, and death from respiratory failure. Candida was likely clinically significant in most patients. Recommendations to consider Candida in pulmonary secretions as colonization should be reconsidered.
Keyphrases
- end stage renal disease
- candida albicans
- pulmonary hypertension
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- cystic fibrosis
- respiratory failure
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- biofilm formation
- palliative care
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- mechanical ventilation
- respiratory tract