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A Contemporary Warming/Restraining Device for Efficient Tail Vein Injections in a Murine Fungal Sepsis Model
Published on: November 6, 2020
[Successful medical treatment of Candida tropicalis in prosthetic valve endocarditis]
1Servicio de Internación, Clínica y Maternidad Suizo Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
Medical cure of fungal prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) is rarely reported. We describe a patient with C. tropicalis PVE in whom surgery was believed to be contraindicated. A huge tricuspid valvular vegetation was identified by two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography. After a total of 2 g of amphotericin B, she continued with fluconazole daily with a follow-up of fifteen months. Our patient represents the first case of long term survival of C. tropicalis PVE successfully managed without surgery.
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