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. 2016 Jul 16;10:195. doi: 10.1186/s13256-016-0991-7

Table 1.

Patient’s timeline

Day Patient’s illness
1 Induction chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia (cytarabine + idarubicin)
Prophylactic antibiotics (ciprofloxacin)
3 White blood cell count reached it its nadir
13 Neutropenic fever developed
Right pleuritic chest pain with productive coughing and sticky sputum
Pneumonia developed
Changed to meropenem and vancomycin
17 Neutropenic fever persisted
Pneumonia aggregation
Exudative pleural effusion
Enterococcus faecium with resistance to vancomycin in pleural effusion
Meropenem and linezolid, and caspofungin
19 White blood cell count recovered within normal range
Complete remission for acute myeloid leukemia through bone marrow biopsy
Developed sudden cough that would become more severe after swallowing
Esophagram; thin fistula at the mid-esophagus and the right bronchus intermedius
Chest computed tomography imaging; extensive necrotizing pneumonia of the right lung and suspicious for a bronchoesophageal fistula
Bronchoscopy; hyperemic mucosa on right upper bronchus and brownish necrotic tissue in the middle lobe of his right lung
Esophagoscopy; a large linear defect of the esophageal wall
20 Mucormycosis confirmed
Amphotericin B instead of caspofungin
Sudden death due to hemoptysis