The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of a single-dose fluconazole treatment of fungal esophagitis in patients with alcoholic liver disease.

Twenty-two alcoholic liver disease patients with fungal esophagitis were randomly assigned to receive either a single-dose of mg fluconazole or a 7-day treatment of daily 50 mg fluconazole. Control esophagoscopy was performed in both groups on days Diflucan 150 dosage 7 days smears and cultures on Sabouraud's diflucan 150 dosage 7 days were performed at both endoscopies.

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Patients' sera were tested for Candida antigens and for antibodies against Diflucan 150 diflucan 150 dosage 7 days 7 days albicans on days 1, 8 and Twenty diflucan 150 dosage 7 days 18 C.

There were no significant differences in the treatment outcome between the two groups, clinical cure was recorded in eight out of nine patients in the diflucan 150 dosage 7 days group and nine out of eleven patients in the 7-day group, mycological eradication in four out of nine, and in three out of eleven, respectively.

Single-dose fluconazole treatment seems to be an effective therapy of fungal esophagitis in alcoholic liver disease patients.

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Fluconazole oral tablet is available as both a generic drug, and as the brand-name drug Diflucan. Generic drugs usually cost less than the brand-name version.

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