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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 ...

To fight fungal infections, itraconazole, also known as Sporonox, Sporaz, or Orungal, is usually administered at a single, fixed dose independent of the patient. The drug was discovered to be ...

A 12-month regimen of oral itraconazole was better at preventing relapse of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis after treatment discontinuation. Source: Adobe Stock.

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).

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

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 ...

Patients receiving itraconazole had, on average, almost 5× as many tumors at baseline compared with those not treated with itraconazole (P = .13). Average duration of observation/treatment was ...

In this randomized, multicenter study involving evaluators who were unaware of treatment assignments, we compared the efficacy and safety of posaconazole with those of fluconazole or itraconazole ...