Table 5.
Surgical interventions.
| Survival | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgical intervention | N = 36an (%) | Day 42 n (%)b | Day 84 n (%)b |
| Any intervention | 25 (69.4) | 20 (80.0) | 17 (68.0) |
| Sinus or nasal surgery | 10 (27.8) | 7 (70.0) | 6 (60.0) |
| Repeat lumbar puncturesc | 7 (19.4) | 7 (100) | 7 (100) |
| Craniotomy ± abscess resection | 5 (13.9) | 4 (80.0) | 3 (60.0) |
| Mastoidectomy | 2 (5.6) | 2 (100) | 1 (50.0) |
| Facial resection | 1 (2.8) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| None | 8 (22.2) | 6 (75.0) | 5 (62.5) |
aNo information was available for three patients.
bPercentages are numbers of patients with the fungal organism who were alive at day 42 or 84/total numbers with the intervention.
cNo information available on whether these were performed for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.