micafungin
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Micafungin, sold under the brand name Mycamine, is an echinocandin antifungal medication used to treat and prevent invasive fungal infections including candidemia, abscesses, and esophageal candidiasis. It inhibits the production of beta-1,3-glucan, an essential component of fungal cell walls that is not found in mammals.
Key facts
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- changed
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- 462252182
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- 250
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- Drug.tradename
- Mycamine
- Drug.DailyMedID
- Micafungin
- Drug.routes_of_administration
- Intravenous
- Drug.ATC_prefix
- J02
- Drug.ATC_suffix
- AX05
- Drug.legal_US
- Rx-only
- Drug.legal_status
- Rx-only
- Drug.protein_bound
- 99.8%
- Drug.metabolism
- Via catechol-O-methyltransferase pathway
- Drug.elimination_half life
- 11–17 hours
- Drug.excretion
- 40% feces, <15% urine
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
2,336 papers- Micafungin.Drugs · 2004
- Echinocandins Pharmacokinetics: A Comprehensive Review of Micafungin, Caspofungin, Anidulafungin, and Rezafungin Population Pharmacokinetic Models and Dose Optimization in Special Populations.Clinical pharmacokinetics · 2025
- Micafungin.The Annals of pharmacotherapy · 2004
- Empirical Micafungin Treatment and Survival Without Invasive Fungal Infection in Adults With ICU-Acquired Sepsis, Candida Colonization, and Multiple Organ Failure: The EMPIRICUS Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA · 2016
- Micafungin: a therapeutic review.Expert review of anti-infective therapy · 2004
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Indications
- Dosage
- Dosage forms
- References
- Further reading
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