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Removal of Central Venous Catheters from Patients with Candidemia

Author(s) -

Luca Lazzarini,

Roberto Luzzati

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/341316

Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine , central venous catheter , venous access , fungemia , mycosis , surgery , catheter

Sir—We read with interest the recent article “Should Vascular Catheters Be Removed from All Patients with Candidemia? An Evidence-Based Review” by Nucci and Anaissie [1], who attempt to clarify a controversial issue related to the clinical management of this infection. As the authors of a study [2] cited in their article, we were surprised by the interpretation of some of our data, and we would like to add our comments on this topic. First, in our retrospective study [2], removal of central venous catheters (CVCs) was associated with a significant decrease in the mortality rate (OR, 0.62; 95% CI, 0.38–0.99; ). The mortality rate P p .047

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