Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by multidrug-resistant Candida albicans in a patient with myelodysplasia syndrome: A case report and literature review

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Candida endocarditis is an infrequent disease with a high mortality rate, which commonly occurs in immunosuppressed patients with cardiac valve replacement. We reported a 70-year-old woman diagnosed with Candida prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE). This study also involved a...

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Autores principales: Kermani, Firoozeh, Shokohi, Tahereh, Abastabar, Mahdi, Davoodi, Lotfollah, Ziabakhsh Tabari, Shervin, Jalalian, Rozita, Mehdipour, Shirin, Mirzakhani, Roghayeh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iranian Society of Medical Mycology 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6315203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30619966
http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/cmm.4.3.171

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