Candida parapsilosis prosthetic valve endocarditis

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. Th...

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Autores principales: Silva-Pinto, André, Ferraz, Rita, Casanova, Jorge, Sarmento, António, Santos, Lurdes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26288749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2015.07.004
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author Silva-Pinto, André
Ferraz, Rita
Casanova, Jorge
Sarmento, António
Santos, Lurdes
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description 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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spelling pubmed-45391632015-08-18 Candida parapsilosis prosthetic valve endocarditis Silva-Pinto, André Ferraz, Rita Casanova, Jorge Sarmento, António Santos, Lurdes Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report 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. Elsevier 2015-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4539163/ /pubmed/26288749 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2015.07.004 Text en © 2015 International Society for Human and Animal Mycology http://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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