Table 5.

Baseline characteristics of high-risk patients with permanent pacemaker and isolated pulmonary Candida spp. colonization without pre-existing pneumonia (cohort 3)

	Antifungal therapy (n = 8)	No antifungal therapy (n = 12)	p value
Age (years)	73 (65; 79)	74 (69; 83)	0.69
Cancer, n (%)	0 (0)	4 (30)	0.12
SAPS II	50 (46; 56)	34 (29; 58)	0.09
SOFA score	10 (5; 11)	4 (3; 7)	0.08

Data are presented as median (25 %; 75 % quartile)

SAPS II Simplified Acute Physiology Score II, SOFA Sequential Organ Failure Assessment