Modern Diagnosis of Candidal Pneumonia in Children

Abstract

In the last decade, mycoses have become a serious clinical problem for neonatal intensive care units. To date, fungal infections confidently occupy the 3rd place among hospital infections. This is due to the constant improvement of modern technologies for providing intensive care to premature infants and with a significant increase in survival among this category, there is a need to use various invasive methods of treatment, such as artificial lung ventilation (ventilator), long-term parenteral nutrition, prolonged catheterization of central veins, which contribute to fungal colonization and the formation of biofilms as a reservoir for systemic spread of fungi.

The article presents the results of observation of children who were in the ICU ward, examined for fungal damage to organs and systems. Laboratory and instrumental examination data and features of the clinical course of candida pneumonia in children. It was found that in routine practice, risk factors and suspicion of the possibility of fungal invasion were leading in the diagnosis of fungal infection.