Aspergillosis of the Heart and Lung and Review of Published Reports on Fungal Endocarditis

Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is increasingly diagnosed in high-risk patients. The lesions are usually located in the lungs and/or sinuses, and the fungus may spread haematogenously to different organs; however, involvement of the heart during IA is very rare. We describe a unique case of invasive asp...

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Autores principales: Sulik-Tyszka, Beata, Kacprzyk, Piotr, Mądry, Krzysztof, Ziarkiewicz-Wróblewska, Bogna, Jędrzejczak, Wiesław, Wróblewska, Marta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4937097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27245170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11046-016-0012-9
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Sumario:Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is increasingly diagnosed in high-risk patients. The lesions are usually located in the lungs and/or sinuses, and the fungus may spread haematogenously to different organs; however, involvement of the heart during IA is very rare. We describe a unique case of invasive aspergillosis of the heart septum and the lungs in the allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant recipient.

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