Isolated Aspergillosis Myocardial Abscesses in a Liver-Transplant Patient

Cardiac abscess is an uncommon and fatal complication after transplantation. We report a case of an initially isolated aspergillosis myocardial abscess diagnosed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI). At that time, there was no other biological evidence or other extracardiac manifestations. A...

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Autores principales: Dang-Tran, Kim-Diêp, Chabbert, Valérie, Esposito, Laure, Guilbeau-Frugier, Céline, Dédouit, Fabrice, Rostaing, Lionel, Rousseau, Hervé, Otal, Phillippe, Kamar, Nassim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3965910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24707433
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/418357
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Sumario:Cardiac abscess is an uncommon and fatal complication after transplantation. We report a case of an initially isolated aspergillosis myocardial abscess diagnosed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI). At that time, there was no other biological evidence or other extracardiac manifestations. A three-month course of dual antifungal therapy followed by a single antifungal therapy was empirically given. Six month after admission, Aspergillus fumigatus was isolated for the first time and the patient deceased from a disseminated aspergillosis.

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