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European guidelines for antifungal management in leukemia and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: summary of the ECIL 3—2009 Update

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In 2005, several groups, including the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, the European Organization for Treatment and Research of Cancer, the European Leukemia Net and the Immunocompromised Host Society created the European Conference on Infections in Leukemia (ECIL). The main goal of ECIL is to elaborate guidelines, or recommendations, for the management of infections in leukemia and stem cell transplant patients. The first sets of ECIL slides about the management of invasive fungal disease were made available on the web in 2006 and the papers were published in 2007. The third meeting of the group (ECIL 3) was held in September 2009 and the group updated its previous recommendations. The goal of this paper is to summarize the new proposals from ECIL 3, based on the results of studies published after the ECIL 2 meeting: (1) the prophylactic recommendations for hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients were formulated differently, by splitting the neutropenic and the GVHD phases and taking into account recent data on voriconazole; (2) micafungin was introduced as an alternative drug for empirical antifungal therapy; (3) although several studies were published on preemptive antifungal approaches in neutropenic patients, the group decided not to propose any recommendation, as the only randomized study comparing an empirical versus a preemptive approach showed a significant excess of fungal disease in the preemptive group.

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Acknowledgements

The ECIL Organization Committee is indebted to the companies that supported the expert meetings through educational grants since ECIL 1 in 2005: Astellas Pharma, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cephalon, Gilead Sciences, Glaxo-Smith Beecham, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Schering-Plough, Wyeth, Zeneus-Pharma and Cephalon. They are thankful to Jean-Michel Gosset and KOBE, Group GL events, Lyon, for the organization of the meetings. They are also indebted to the participants of the ECIL 3 meeting: Murat Akova, Turkey; Maiken Arendrup, Denmark; Rosemary Barnes, UK; Jacques Bille, Switzerland; Stéphane Bretagne, France; Thierry Calandra, Switzerland; Elio Castagnola, Italy; Catherine Cordonnier, France; Oliver A Cornely, Germany; Mario Cruciani, Italy; Manuel Cuenca-Estrella, Spain; Eric Dannaoui, France; Rafael De La Camara, Spain; Emma Dellow (Gilead Sciences), UK; Peter Donnelly, The Netherlands; Lubos Drgona, Slovakia; Hermann Einsele, Germany; Dan Engelhard, Israel; Ursula Flückiger, Switzerland; Bertrand Gachot, France; Jesus Gonzales-Moreno (MSD), Spain; Andreas Groll, Germany; Ina Hanel (Astellas), Germany; Raoul Herbrecht, France; Claus-Peter Heussel, Germany; Brian Jones, UK; Christopher Kibbler, UK; Nikolai Klimko, Russia; Lena Klingspor, Sweden; Michal Kouba, Czech Republic; Frederic Lamoth, Switzerland; Fanny Lanternier, France; Thomas Lehrnbecher, Germany; Juergen Loeffler, Germany; Olivier Lortholary, France; Johan Maertens, Belgium; Oscar Marchetti, Switzerland; Alexey Maschan, Russia; Malgorzata Mikulska, Italy; Livio Pagano, Italy; Goergios Petrikos, Greece, Daniel Poulain, France; Zdenek Racil, Czech Republic; Pierre Reusser, Switzerland; Patricia Ribaud, France; Malcolm Richardson, UK; Valérie Rizzi-Puechal (Pfizer), France; Markus Ruhnke, Germany; Maurizio Sanguinetti, Italy; Janos Sinko, Hungary; Anna Skiada, Greece; Jan Styczynski, Poland; Anne Thiebaut, France; Paul Verweij, The Netherlands; Claudio Viscoli, Italy; Janice Wahl (Schering-Plough) USA; Katherine Ward, UK; and Philipe White, UK.

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JM is a consultant for Astellas Pharma, Gilead Sciences, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Pfizer and Schering-Plough and has received grants from Pfizer, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Cephalon and Gilead. OM received unrestricted research grants from and/or was consultant to Gilead Sciences, Merck, Sharp & Dohme, Pfizer and Schering-Plough. RH has received a grant from Pfizer and has been consultant for Astellas Pharma, Gilead Sciences, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Pfizer and Schering-Plough. OAC received research grants from Astellas, Basilea, Bayer/Schering, Celgene, Genzyme, Gilead, Medac, Menarini, Merck/Schering-Plough, Merck/Serono, Mölnlycke, Novartis, Optimer, and Pfizer, and Quintiles, is a consultant to Astellas, Basilea, Bayer/Schering, F2G, Gilead, Medac, Merck/Schering-Plough, Mölnlycke, Optimer, and Pfizer, and served at the speakers’ bureau of Astellas, Gilead, Merck/Schering-Plough, Pfizer, SpePharm, and United Medical. UF received unrestricted research grants from and/or was consultant to Gilead Sciences, Merck, Sharp & Dohme, Pfizer, and Schering-Plough. BG received travel grants from Pfizer, Gilead Sciences, MSD and Astellas Pharma. WJH received research grants from Astellas, Basilea, Gilead, Merck/Schering-Plough and Pfizer, is a consultant to Novartis, Merck/Schering-Plough and Pfizer, and served at the speakers’ bureau of Astellas, Gilead, Merck/Schering-Plough and Pfizer. CLF received grants from Pfizer and Gilead. She served at the speakers’ bureau of Gilead, Pfizer and MSD. PR has received grants and research supports from Pfizer, and has been a consultant to Pfizer, Schering-Plough, Gilead Sciences and Merck Sharp & Dohme. AT has been a consultant to MSD, Schering-Plough, Gilead and Pfizer. CC has received grants and research supports from Pfizer, Gilead Sciences and Merck Sharp & Dohme, has been a consultant to Pfizer, Schering-Plough, Gilead Sciences, Merck Sharp & Dohme and Astellas-Pharma, and served at the speakers’ bureau of Gilead Sciences, Merck/Schering-Plough and Pfizer. PF declares no conflict of interest.

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The ECIL is a common initiative of the following groups or organizations: the Infectious Diseases Working Party of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, the Infectious Diseases Group of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer, the European Leukemia Net (EU grant number: LSHC-CT-2004), and the International Immunocompromised Host Society.

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Maertens, J., Marchetti, O., Herbrecht, R. et al. European guidelines for antifungal management in leukemia and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: summary of the ECIL 3—2009 Update. Bone Marrow Transplant 46, 709–718 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2010.175

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