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Table 5 Baseline characteristics of high-risk patients with permanent pacemaker and isolated pulmonary Candida spp. colonization without pre-existing pneumonia (cohort 3)

From: Antifungal therapy in patients with pulmonary Candida spp. colonization may have no beneficial effects

 

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

  1. Data are presented as median (25 %; 75 % quartile)
  2. SAPS II Simplified Acute Physiology Score II, SOFA Sequential Organ Failure Assessment