Aspergillus endocarditis diagnosed by fungemia plus serum antigen testing

Fungal endocarditis remains an uncommon clinical diagnosis, though is likely to become more frequent due to the global increase in transplantations and cardiac valvular surgery. A case of prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Aspergillus fumigatus is described that was diagnosed with serologic fungal...

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Autores principales: Hatlen, Timothy J., Filler, Scott G., Bayer, Arnold, Shah, Sonia, Shodhan, Shivani, Van, Tam T.
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/PMC6216080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30416954
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.10.004
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author Hatlen, Timothy J.
Filler, Scott G.
Bayer, Arnold
Shah, Sonia
Shodhan, Shivani
Van, Tam T.
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description Fungal endocarditis remains an uncommon clinical diagnosis, though is likely to become more frequent due to the global increase in transplantations and cardiac valvular surgery. A case of prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Aspergillus fumigatus is described that was diagnosed with serologic fungal markers and confirmed with positive blood cultures, an uncommon finding.
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spelling pubmed-62160802018-11-09 Aspergillus endocarditis diagnosed by fungemia plus serum antigen testing Hatlen, Timothy J. Filler, Scott G. Bayer, Arnold Shah, Sonia Shodhan, Shivani Van, Tam T. Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Fungal endocarditis remains an uncommon clinical diagnosis, though is likely to become more frequent due to the global increase in transplantations and cardiac valvular surgery. A case of prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Aspergillus fumigatus is described that was diagnosed with serologic fungal markers and confirmed with positive blood cultures, an uncommon finding. Elsevier 2018-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6216080/ /pubmed/30416954 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.10.004 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Hatlen, Timothy J.
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Aspergillus endocarditis diagnosed by fungemia plus serum antigen testing
title Aspergillus endocarditis diagnosed by fungemia plus serum antigen testing
title_full Aspergillus endocarditis diagnosed by fungemia plus serum antigen testing
title_fullStr Aspergillus endocarditis diagnosed by fungemia plus serum antigen testing
title_full_unstemmed Aspergillus endocarditis diagnosed by fungemia plus serum antigen testing
title_short Aspergillus endocarditis diagnosed by fungemia plus serum antigen testing
title_sort aspergillus endocarditis diagnosed by fungemia plus serum antigen testing
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6216080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30416954
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.10.004
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