Successful treatment of prosthetic aortic valve mucormycosis

Chest. 1999 Dec;116(6):1818-20. doi: 10.1378/chest.116.6.1818.

Abstract

Mucor endocarditis after cardiovascular surgery is rare and usually fatal. We report the first known case of prosthetic aortic valve mucormycosis in a patient without predisposing risk factors who was successfully treated using a combination of early antifungal drug therapy and surgical removal of infected material.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aortic Valve*
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Heart Valve Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Valve Diseases / drug therapy
  • Heart Valve Diseases / surgery
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis / adverse effects*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mucormycosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Mucormycosis / drug therapy
  • Mucormycosis / surgery
  • Mucormycosis / therapy*
  • Prosthesis-Related Infections / diagnostic imaging
  • Prosthesis-Related Infections / drug therapy
  • Prosthesis-Related Infections / surgery
  • Prosthesis-Related Infections / therapy*