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Hamza Duygu1, Sanem Nalbantgil, Filiz Ozerkan
1Department of Cardiology, Ege University Medical Faculty, Izmir, Turkey. hamzakard@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Aspergillus aortitis following cardiac surgery has an important role among the cardiac infections as almost all affected cases result in death. Survival of the patient with Aspergillus aortitis is dependent on early initiation of aggressive medical and surgical treatment. Transesophageal echocardiography proved very useful in the diagnosis of this uncommon case of aortitis. In this paper, we present a patient with aortitis caused by Aspergillus niger that hasn't been reported previously diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography following cardiac surgery.
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