Candida parapsilosis prosthetic valve endocarditis

Medical Mycology Case Reports

Jorge Casanova¹  Rita Ferraz²  Lurdes Santos²  António Sarmento²  André Silva-Pinto² 

[1] Cardiac Surgery Department, Centro Hospitalar São João, Alameda Professor Hernâni Monteiro, Porto 4200, Portugal;Infectious Diseases Department, Centro Hospitalar São João, Alameda Professor Hernâni Monteiro, Porto 4200, Portugal;

关键词: Infective endocarditis;    Candida parapsilosis;    Candida endocarditis;    Cardiac surgery;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.mmcr.2015.07.004

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Candida endocarditis is a rare infection associated with high mortality and morbidity. There are still some controversies about Candida endocarditis treatment, especially about the treatment duration. We report a case of a Candida parapsilosis endocarditis that presented as a lower limb ischemia. The patient was surgically treated with a cryopreserved homograft aortic replacement. We used intravenous fluconazole 800 mg as initial treatment, followed with 12 months of 400 mg fluconazole per os. The patient outcome was good.

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