Treatment of Candida albicans endocarditis: case report and a review.

Title:: Treatment of Candida albicans endocarditis: case report and a review.
Document type:: Case Reports; Journal Article; Review
Author(s):: Hauser, M; Hess, J; Belohradsky, BH
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.
Journal title abbreviation:: Infection
Year:: 2003
Journal volume:: 31
Journal issue:: 2
Pages contribution:: 125-7
Language:: eng
Fulltext / DOI:: doi:10.1007/s15010-002-2187-x
Pubmed ID:: http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12682821
Print-ISSN:: 0300-8126
TUM Institution:: Klinik für Kinderkardiologie und angeborene Herzfehler (Prof. Hess)
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