Active clinical trials for "Mycoses"

This phase II trial is studying how well rituximab works in preventing acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in patients undergoing a donor stem cell transplant for hematologic cancer. Giving chemotherapy and total-body irradiation before a donor stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It may also stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. The donated stem cells may replace the patient's immune cells and help destroy any remaining cancer cells (graft-versus-tumor effect). Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving a monoclonal antibody, rituximab, together with anti-thymocyte globulin, tacrolimus, and mycophenolate mofetil before and after the transplant may stop this from happening

This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of 17-N-allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin and bortezomib in treating patients with relapsed or refractory hematologic cancer. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as 17-N-allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Bortezomib may stop the growth of cancer cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Giving 17-N-allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin together with bortezomib may kill more cancer cells.

Adult patients with early stage MF-CTCL (stage IA-IB) will be eligible for this study. A total of 100 early stage MF-CTCL patients diagnosed in the past year will be enrolled. Treatment with CL gel will be applied once daily to all skin areas affected by MF-CTCL and, for 8 weeks, one selected skin area unaffected by MF-CTCL (0.5% body surface area) until treatment response (complete response), study treatment duration completed (56 weeks), progression, or another withdrawal criterion is met. Depending on the type of skin drug-related reaction (if any) occurring after application of CL gel, this study will categorize patients into three different groups corresponding to three different treatment patterns: Group A: Patients with no skin drug reaction with CL gel application Group B: Patients developing a skin drug reaction of any grade with CL gel application, not due to allergic reaction to CL gel, will continue treatment at reduced application frequency Group C: Patients from Group B unable to tolerate reduced CL gel application frequency will apply a potent topical steroid twice daily in addition to CL gel applied every other day

The study proposes to investigate, in children admitted at Children's Medical Center at Dallas, the effectiveness of antimicrobial lock therapy (ALT) with Micafungin in combination with systemic antifungal therapy in catheter-related fungal infections in order to salvage highly needed central venous catheter (CVC) and at the same time to investigate the effectiveness of Micafungin alone as systemic therapy in the treatment of Candidemia in a pediatric population.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the safety and tolerability of AP in sepsis patients with renal failure and to investigate the effect of AP on inflammatory and clinical parameters in sepsis patients with renal failure.

This randomized phase I trial studies the side effects and the best dose of carfilzomib when given together with or without romidepsin in treating patients with stage IA-IVB cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Carfilzomib and romidepsin may stop the growth of cancer cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. It is not yet known whether giving carfilzomib alone is more effective than when given together with romidepsin.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate how safe and effective the combination of two different drugs (brentuximab vedotin and rituximab) is in patients with certain types of lymphoma. This study is for patients who have a type of lymphoma that expresses a tumor marker called CD30 and/or a type that is associated with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV-related lymphoma) and who have not yet received any treatment for their cancer, except for dose-reduction or discontinuation (stoppage) of medications used to prevent rejection of transplanted organs (for those patients who have undergone transplantation). This study is investigating the combination of brentuximab vedotin and rituximab as a first treatment for lymphoma patients

This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of giving tanespimycin together with bortezomib in treating patients with advanced solid tumors or lymphomas. (Accrual for lymphoma patients closed as of 11/27/09) Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as tanespimycin, work in different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Bortezomib may stop the growth of cancer cells by blocking the enzymes necessary for their growth. It may also increase the effectiveness of tanespimycin by making cancer cells more sensitive to the drug. Combining tanespimycin with bortezomib may kill more cancer cells.

To evaluate the clinical success rate of micafungin in preventing invasive mycosis after liver transplantation.

The main objective of this study is to test prospectively the performance of an algorithm stratified by an index based on neutrophil counts in association with galactomannan assay and image tests to start an antifungal early therapy (empirical/preemptive) in neutropenic patients. Ths specific objectives are to determine the overall incidence of invasive fungal infections, use of antifungal agents, duration of hospitalization and mortality in this cohort, and to evaluate if this strategy is associated with a reduction in the expected use of antifungal agents if a classical empiric antifungal strategy was used, without an increase in the incidence of invasive fungal infections. This is a prospective, non randomized, non comparative study. Patients aged ≥ 18 years are eligible if they have acute leukemia, myelodysplasia or other baseline disease submitted to chemotherapy or to allogeneic stem cell transplantation with an expected duration of neutropenia (neutrophil count <500cells/mm³) of at least 10 days. Exclusion criteria are patients with and a past history of or invasive mold infection and those who do not want to participate. The study has no comparator arm. However, the investigators intend to determine if the algorithm based on the D-index would result in a 50% reduction in the use of antifungal agents, if all patients with persistent fever and neutropenia received empiric antifungal therapy. Based on our database of ~2,000 episodes of febrile neutropenia, 36% of patients had persistent fever between days 4 and 7 of antibiotics and would receive empiric antifungal therapy. A total of 105 patients will be needed to demonstrate a 50% reduction in antifungal use if the investigators compared this cohort with a matched control historical cohort (alpha = 5%, beta = 20%).