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Case Reports
. 1998;58(3):301-2.

[Successful medical treatment of Candida tropicalis in prosthetic valve endocarditis]

[Article in Spanish]
J E Roel  1 , A Gamba, M Curone, A Pescio, C Bruno, J Finquelievich
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Case Reports

[Successful medical treatment of Candida tropicalis in prosthetic valve endocarditis]

[Article in Spanish]
J E Roel et al. Medicina (B Aires). 1998.

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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