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Two-stage operation for isolated pulmonary valve infectious endocarditis with Candida parapsilosis
Wataru Uchida1, Yuichi Hirate, Hideki Ito
1Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital, Nagoya, Japan. ballade_appassionata_arzt@yahoo.co.jp
Abstract:
We report a case of isolated pulmonary infectious endocarditis (IE) with Candida parapsilosis. A 66-year-old man presented with fever and cough. Echocardiography showed severe pulmonary regurgitation and vegetations on the pulmonary valves. Initially, antibiotics were prescribed against bacterial IE, and the vegetations disappeared; however, the pulmonary vegetations relapsed, and C. parapsilosis was grown from blood cultures. We performed a debridement without a pulmonary valve replacement. There was no recurrence of IE for 3 years, and then the patient developed right ventricular enlargement and severe tricuspid regurgitation due to severe pulmonary regurgitation. Pulmonary valve replacement was performed. Now the patient is free from infection.
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