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Successful treatment of prosthetic aortic valve mucormycosis
A Sanchez-Recalde1, J L Merino, F Dominguez
1U. M. Q. Cardiología, Hospital General La Paz, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain. asrecalde@jet.es
Chest
|December 14, 1999
Abstract:
Mucor endocarditis after cardiovascular surgery is rare and usually fatal. We report the first known case of prosthetic aortic valve mucormycosis in a patient without predisposing risk factors who was successfully treated using a combination of early antifungal drug therapy and surgical removal of infected material.