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Don’t Stop Beleafing: A Unique Case of Fungal Infective Endocarditis

We present the case of a 60-year-old man who was successfully treated for obstructive fungal infective endocarditis of the ascending aorta caused by Geotrichum capitatum. This extremely rare cause of fungal infective endocarditis required surgical and prolonged medical management, facilitated by eff...

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Autores principales: Seitler, Samuel, Bruce, Charo, Rosendahl, Ulrich, Crucerescu, Elena, Shore, Darryl, Rybicka, Justyna, Semple, Thomas, Li, Wei, Gatzoulis, Michael A., Al-Sakini, Nada
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8302800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.02.004
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author Seitler, Samuel
Bruce, Charo
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Crucerescu, Elena
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Semple, Thomas
Li, Wei
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description We present the case of a 60-year-old man who was successfully treated for obstructive fungal infective endocarditis of the ascending aorta caused by Geotrichum capitatum. This extremely rare cause of fungal infective endocarditis required surgical and prolonged medical management, facilitated by effective multidisciplinary cooperation. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)
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spelling pubmed-83028002021-07-26 Don’t Stop Beleafing: A Unique Case of Fungal Infective Endocarditis Seitler, Samuel Bruce, Charo Rosendahl, Ulrich Crucerescu, Elena Shore, Darryl Rybicka, Justyna Semple, Thomas Li, Wei Gatzoulis, Michael A. Al-Sakini, Nada JACC Case Rep Mini-Focus Issue: Valvular Heart Disease We present the case of a 60-year-old man who was successfully treated for obstructive fungal infective endocarditis of the ascending aorta caused by Geotrichum capitatum. This extremely rare cause of fungal infective endocarditis required surgical and prolonged medical management, facilitated by effective multidisciplinary cooperation. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.) Elsevier 2021-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8302800/ /pubmed/34317601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.02.004 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://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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Seitler, Samuel
Bruce, Charo
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Crucerescu, Elena
Shore, Darryl
Rybicka, Justyna
Semple, Thomas
Li, Wei
Gatzoulis, Michael A.
Al-Sakini, Nada
Don’t Stop Beleafing: A Unique Case of Fungal Infective Endocarditis
title Don’t Stop Beleafing: A Unique Case of Fungal Infective Endocarditis
title_full Don’t Stop Beleafing: A Unique Case of Fungal Infective Endocarditis
title_fullStr Don’t Stop Beleafing: A Unique Case of Fungal Infective Endocarditis
title_full_unstemmed Don’t Stop Beleafing: A Unique Case of Fungal Infective Endocarditis
title_short Don’t Stop Beleafing: A Unique Case of Fungal Infective Endocarditis
title_sort don’t stop beleafing: a unique case of fungal infective endocarditis
topic Mini-Focus Issue: Valvular Heart Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8302800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.02.004
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