Aspergillus mural endocarditis. Clinical and echocardiographic diagnosis.
Fungal mural endocarditis is a rare entity in which the antemortem diagnosis is seldom made. This case presentation describes a patient in whom the clinical diagnosis of Aspergillus mural endocarditis was made by echocardiography and by biopsy of a peripheral embolic lesion. This led to a combined medical and surgical approach to therapy.
D000328:Adult; D001228:Aspergillosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004452:Echocardiography; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans