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Treatment of Candida albicans endocarditis: case report and a review
M Hauser1, J Hess, B H Belohradsky
1Dept. of Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center, Lazarettstrasse 36, D-80636 Munich, Germany. hauser@dhm.mhn.de
Infection
|April 12, 2003
Abstract:
Candida albicans endocarditis occurs mostly in patients with congenital heart disease; open heart surgery is the greatest predisposing factor. We report on a child with truncus arteriosus communis and a large Candida vegetation within the prosthetic pulmonary valve, causing severe right ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Treatment was performed successfully by surgery and administration of liposomal amphotericin B (AmBisome) and 5-flucytosine.