Join The MSG Educational Committee for Earlier Treatment of Invasive Fungal Infections: Are We There Yet? - A Free ICAAC 2012 Satellite Symposium in San Francisco.

While early diagnosis and initiation of appropriate antifungal therapy are crucial to assure optimal outcomes for patients with invasive mycoses, there are many barriers to early, effective management. Better screening methods and newer diagnostic techniques, when effectively employed, should enable more rapid and accurate diagnoses of these challenging infections. Furthermore, appropriate use of current and emerging antifungals with enhanced antifungal spectra should also afford better outcomes despite changing epidemiologic trends and the emergence of resistant pathogens.

This educational activity—Earlier Treatment of Invasive Fungal Infections: Are We There Yet?—challenges the audience to assess whether we are now in an era in which appropriate diagnostics and therapeutics can be employed early in the management of invasive mycoses to improve antifungal outcomes. The initiative uses case-based learning and a panel-discussion format to address the current status of management of aspergillosis, candidiasis, cryptococcal, and endemic fungal infections.