Blastocyst or Blastomycosis?: A Rare Presentation of Disseminated Blastomycosis With Cardiac Involvement in Pregnancy

Disseminated blastomycosis with cardiac manifestations is exceedingly rare. Here we present the first known case of disseminated, cardiac blastomycosis in a pregnant patient. Antifungal medications and a multidisciplinary, nonsurgical approach were successful in eradicating the fungal cardiac mass a...

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Autores principales: Walker, Jackson, Biondi, Nicholas, Pivato, Erica, Sharma, Sneha, Phatak, Prajakta, Das, Manisha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10157107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37153477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.09.008
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author Walker, Jackson
Biondi, Nicholas
Pivato, Erica
Sharma, Sneha
Phatak, Prajakta
Das, Manisha
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description Disseminated blastomycosis with cardiac manifestations is exceedingly rare. Here we present the first known case of disseminated, cardiac blastomycosis in a pregnant patient. Antifungal medications and a multidisciplinary, nonsurgical approach were successful in eradicating the fungal cardiac mass and in preventing vertical transmission to the fetus. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)
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spelling pubmed-101571072023-05-05 Blastocyst or Blastomycosis?: A Rare Presentation of Disseminated Blastomycosis With Cardiac Involvement in Pregnancy Walker, Jackson Biondi, Nicholas Pivato, Erica Sharma, Sneha Phatak, Prajakta Das, Manisha JACC Case Rep Case Report Disseminated blastomycosis with cardiac manifestations is exceedingly rare. Here we present the first known case of disseminated, cardiac blastomycosis in a pregnant patient. Antifungal medications and a multidisciplinary, nonsurgical approach were successful in eradicating the fungal cardiac mass and in preventing vertical transmission to the fetus. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.) Elsevier 2022-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10157107/ /pubmed/37153477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.09.008 Text en © 2023 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Walker, Jackson
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Pivato, Erica
Sharma, Sneha
Phatak, Prajakta
Das, Manisha
Blastocyst or Blastomycosis?: A Rare Presentation of Disseminated Blastomycosis With Cardiac Involvement in Pregnancy
title Blastocyst or Blastomycosis?: A Rare Presentation of Disseminated Blastomycosis With Cardiac Involvement in Pregnancy
title_full Blastocyst or Blastomycosis?: A Rare Presentation of Disseminated Blastomycosis With Cardiac Involvement in Pregnancy
title_fullStr Blastocyst or Blastomycosis?: A Rare Presentation of Disseminated Blastomycosis With Cardiac Involvement in Pregnancy
title_full_unstemmed Blastocyst or Blastomycosis?: A Rare Presentation of Disseminated Blastomycosis With Cardiac Involvement in Pregnancy
title_short Blastocyst or Blastomycosis?: A Rare Presentation of Disseminated Blastomycosis With Cardiac Involvement in Pregnancy
title_sort blastocyst or blastomycosis?: a rare presentation of disseminated blastomycosis with cardiac involvement in pregnancy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10157107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37153477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.09.008
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