Candida parapsilosis prosthetic valve endocarditis
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Candida parapsilosis prosthetic valve endocarditis
Candida endocarditis is a rare infection associated with high mortality and morbidity. There are still some controversies about Candida endocarditis treatment, especially about the treatment duration. We report a case of a Candida parapsilosis endocarditis that presented as a lower limb ischemia. The patient was surgically treated with a cryopreserved homograft aortic replacement. We used intra...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical Mycology Case Reports
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2211-7539
DOI: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2015.07.004