A chronic hemodialysis patient with isolated pulmonary valve infective endocarditis caused by non-albicans Candida: a rare case and literature review

BACKGROUND: Isolated pulmonary valve infective endocarditis caused by Candida is rare in chronic hemodialysis patients. The 2009 Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines suggest the combined use of surgery and antibiotics to treat candidiasis; however, successful nonsurgical treatment of Ca...

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Autores principales: Chang, Chih-Hao, Huang, Myo-Ming, Yeih, Dong-Feng, Lu, Kuo-Cheng, Hou, Yi-Chou
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5585904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28874131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-017-0706-3

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