Learn about the impact of Valley fever on pets, including symptoms, diagnosis, treatment options, and emerging vaccine developments in veterinary care.

If your dog has a severe infection, your vet might combine itraconazole with Amphotericin B, another antifungal medication. If the dog’s lungs are full of fungi, they will be closely monitored.

We performed a randomized trial comparing oral and intravenous itraconazole with oral and intravenous fluconazole, administered to HSCT recipients and patients with acute leukemia (AL), to ...

Now research from UT Southwestern scientists suggests that precise dosage is just as important in patient care. Looking specifically as a drug called itraconazole which is used to manage infections as ...

However, at 24 weeks the risk of death was 11.3% in the amphotericin group and 21.0% in the itraconazole group (absolute risk difference, 9.7 percentage points).

Of the 95 samples, 50 had no detectable levels of itraconazole (less than 0.3 μg per milliliter), and 39 had no detectable levels of the principal metabolite, hydroxyitraconazole (less than 0.3 ...

May 13, 2003 — Itraconazole was better than fluconazole for long-term antifungal prophylaxis in allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplant patients, according to the results of a randomized ...

Conclusion: Antifungal prophylaxis with itraconazole effectively prevents proven invasive fungal infections and—shown for the first time for antifungal prophylaxis—reduces mortality from these ...

A total of 29 patients were enrolled, of whom 19 were treated with itraconazole. Itraconazole treatment was associated with two adverse events (grade 2 fatigue and grade 4 congestive heart failure).

Patients with neutropenia resulting from chemotherapy for acute myelogenous leukemia or the myelodysplastic syndrome are at high risk for difficult-to-treat and often fatal invasive fungal infections.