Cited by 79Antifungal resistance and susceptibilityHIV/AIDS oral health manifestationsOcular Infections and Treatments

Fluconazole versus itraconazole for candida esophagitis in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Candida Esophagitis

Open access
Barbaro, G, Barbarini, G, Calderon, W, Grisorio, B, Alcini, P, Di Lorenzo, G·1996·Gastroenterology

Abstract

Backgrounds & aims Contrasting opinions exist about the pharmacological treatment of esophageal candidiasis in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The aim of this study was to assess the long-term efficacy of fluconazole and itraconazole treatment.Methods This study evaluated 2213 human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients at first episode of esophageal candidiasis diagnosed by endoscopy; 1105 received fluconazole and 1108 received itraconazole. The endoscopic and clinical response to treatment was assessed periodically until the end of the follow-up period (1 year).Results At week 2, endoscopic cure occurred in 81.2% of patients treated with fluconazole and in 65.6% of patients treated with itraconazole (P < 0.001). Clinical cure was observed in 81.5% of patients treated with fluconazole and in 75.2% of patients treated with itraconazole (P < 0.001). At the end of the follow-up period, endoscopic and clinical cure were observed in 96% of patients treated with fluconazole and in 95.6% of patients treated with itraconazole (P = 0.788), with similar differences by intention-to-treat analysis (93.6% vs. 93.3%; P = 0.853). Treatment failure was observed in 22.3% of fluconazole-treated patients and in 26.6% of itraconazole-treated patients (P = 0.022).Conclusions Fluconazole and itraconazole are provided with good long-term therapeutic efficacy in the treatment of Candida esophagitis in patients with AIDS. Fluconazole is associated with a higher rate of cure than itraconazole in short-term treatment.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1053/gast.1996.v111.pm8898629

Cites

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Fluconazole is superior to ketoconazole, itraconazole capsules, and flucytosine for treatment of esophageal candidiasis.

    “Fluconazole is superior to ketoconazole, itraconazole capsules, and flucytosine for the treatment of esophageal candidiasis [278][279][280].”

    From Guidelines for Treatment of Candidiasis (2004) · cites this paper as [279]

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

The publisher hasn’t deposited this paper’s reference list.

Research works printed but not linked: 13

  1. References therapy. N Engl J Med 1994; 330:263 -272.
  2. Deschamps MM, Pape JW, Verdier RI, DeHovitz J, Thomas F, Ann Intern Med 1988; 109:502 -504.
  3. Johnson WD Jr. Treatment of Candida esophagitis in AIDS pa- 18. Lake-Bakaar G, Tom W, Lake-Bakaar D, Gupta N, Beidas S, Elsakr tients. Am J Gastroenterol 1988; 83:20 -21.
  4. M, Straus EW. Gastropathy and ketoconazole malabsorption in 3. Connolly GM, Hawkins D, Harcourt-Webster JN, Parson PA, Hu- the acquired immunodeficienc syndrome (AIDS). Ann Intern Med sain OA, Gazzard BG. Oesophageal symptoms, their causes, 1988; 109:471 -473. treatment and prognosis in patients with the acquired immunode- 19.
  5. Smith D, Woestenborghs R, Heykants J, Gazzard B. The pharma- ficienc syndrome. Gut 1989; 30:1033 -1039. cokinetics of oral itraconazole in AIDS patients (abstr WB 2174).
  6. Smith DE, Midgley J, Allan M, Connolly GM, Gazzard BG. Itracona- Florence: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on zole vs ketakonazole in the treatment of oral and oesophageal AIDS, June 16 -21, 1991:225. candidosis in patients infected with HIV. AIDS 1991; 5:1367 - 1371. Received October 16, 1995. Accepted July 30, 1996.
  7. Laine L, Dretler RH, Conteas CN, Tuazon C, Koster FM, Sattler Address requests for reprints to: Giuseppe Barbaro, M.D., Viale F, Squires K, Islam MZ. Fluconazole compared with ketoconazole Anicio Gallo no. 63, 00174 Rome, Italy. Fax: (39) 6-7102889. for the treatment of Candida esophagitis in AIDS. A randomized Members of the Candida Esophagitis Multicenter Italian Study Ex- trial. Ann Intern Med 1992; 117:655 -660.
  8. Barbaro, M.D., Gabriella Di Lorenzo, M.D., Maurizio Soldini, M.D., 7. Barbaro G, Di Lorenzo G. Comparison of therapeutic activity of and Sandro Parrotto, M.D.); Department of Infectious Diseases and fluconazol and itraconazole in the treatment of esophageal can- Gastroenterology, Istituto Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico didiasis in AIDS patients: a double-blind, randomized, controlled Policlinico S. Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia (Giorgio Barbarini, clinical study. Ital J Gastroenterol 1995; 27:175 -180.
  9. M.D., and Willi Calderon, M.D.); and Department of Clinical Pharma- 8. Kodsi BE, Wicremesinghe PC, Kozinn PJ, Iswara K, Goldberg PK. cology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy (Pierangela Alcini, M.D.). Can- Candida esophagitis. A prospective study of 27 cases. Gastroen- dida Esophagitis Multicenter Italian Study Centers include the De- terology 1976; 71:715 -719. partment of Infectious Diseases and Gastroenterology, University La 9. Armitage P, Berry G. Statistical methods in medical research. Sapienza, Rome (Franco De Rosa, M.D., and Vittorio M. Rinaldi, 2nd ed. Oxford, England: Blackwell Scientific 1987.
  10. Grant SM, Clissold SP. Itraconazole: a review of its pharmacody- pendenti Vigevano (Sergio Edo, M.D.); AIDS Center, State Prison namic and pharmacokinetic properties, and therapeutic potential of Vigevano, Vigevano (Fausto Barbieri, M.D.); Servizio Assistenza in superficia and systemic myocoses. Drugs 1990; 39:877 - Tossicodependenti Abbiategrasso (Silvano Lopez, M.D.); Servizio As- 916.
  11. Just-Nubling G, Gentschew G, Dohle M, Bottinger C, Helm EB, Division of Infectious Diseases, General Hospital, Foggia (Benvenuto Stille W. Fluconazole in the treatment of oropharingeal can- Grisorio, M.D.); Servizio Assistenza Tossicodependenti Foggia (Bruno didosis in HIV-positive patients. Mycoses 1990; 33:435 -440.
  12. Bonacini M, Young T, Laine L. The causes of esophageal symp- vanni Salandra, M.D.); AIDS Center, State Prison of Lucera, Lucera toms in human immunodeficienc virus infection. A prospective (Alfonso Catanzaro, M.D.); AIDS Center, State Prison of San Severo, study of 110 patients. Arch Intern Med 1991; 151:1567 -1572.
  13. Saag MS, Dismukes WE. Azole antifungal agents: emphasis on gery II, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy (Fabio Gaj, M.D., and new triazoles. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1988; 32:1 -8.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Barbaro, G., Barbarini, G., Calderon, W., Grisorio, B., Alcini, P., & Di Lorenzo, G.
Affiliations
Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
Venue
Gastroenterology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1996-11
Volume
111
Issue
5
Pages
1169-1177
ISSN
0016-5085 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2034424215
Cited by
78
References
0
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 3
FWCI
2.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Gastroenterology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › HIV/AIDS oral health manifestations
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Ophthalmology › Ocular Infections and Treatments
Keywords
esophageal candidiasis, AIDS, fluconazole, itraconazole, antifungal therapy, treatment efficacy, treatment failure, HIV infection
MeSH terms
Adult, Antifungal Agents, Candidiasis, Esophagitis, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Patient Compliance, Fluconazole, AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections, Treatment Failure, Itraconazole

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review