Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis in an indigenous Australian male without classic risk factors

Aspergillus endocarditis is rare with most cases occurring in immunosuppressed patients. We present the case of an “immunocompetent” Indigenous Australian male with culture confirmed Aspergillus brain abscesses complicating bilateral endocarditis. The reported mortality rate for Aspergillus endocard...

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Autores principales: Marinelli, Tina, Kidd, Sarah, Shaw, David, Rowe, Emily
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30271705
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.09.005
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description Aspergillus endocarditis is rare with most cases occurring in immunosuppressed patients. We present the case of an “immunocompetent” Indigenous Australian male with culture confirmed Aspergillus brain abscesses complicating bilateral endocarditis. The reported mortality rate for Aspergillus endocarditis approaches 100%. Despite sub-optimal therapy this patient survived beyond expectation.
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spelling pubmed-61593332018-09-28 Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis in an indigenous Australian male without classic risk factors Marinelli, Tina Kidd, Sarah Shaw, David Rowe, Emily Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Aspergillus endocarditis is rare with most cases occurring in immunosuppressed patients. We present the case of an “immunocompetent” Indigenous Australian male with culture confirmed Aspergillus brain abscesses complicating bilateral endocarditis. The reported mortality rate for Aspergillus endocarditis approaches 100%. Despite sub-optimal therapy this patient survived beyond expectation. Elsevier 2018-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6159333/ /pubmed/30271705 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.09.005 Text en © 2018 The Authors 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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Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis in an indigenous Australian male without classic risk factors
title Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis in an indigenous Australian male without classic risk factors
title_full Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis in an indigenous Australian male without classic risk factors
title_fullStr Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis in an indigenous Australian male without classic risk factors
title_full_unstemmed Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis in an indigenous Australian male without classic risk factors
title_short Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis in an indigenous Australian male without classic risk factors
title_sort aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis in an indigenous australian male without classic risk factors
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30271705
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.09.005
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