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Constrictive pericarditis due to coccidiomycosis
J L Faul1, K Hoang, J Schmoker
1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, California 94305-5407, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 30, 1999
Abstract:
Coccidiomycosis is a fungal infection that rarely causes cardiac disease. Constrictive pericarditis in the setting of disseminated coccidiomycosis can be fatal, despite antifungal therapy and pericardiectomy. We report on a patient with constrictive pericarditis due to localized infection by Coccidioides immitis. The patient underwent successful surgical pericardiectomy and antifungal chemotherapy, and remains well 1 year later.