Candida prosthetic valve endocarditis. An autopsy review.
Fungal endocarditis after cardiac surgery has been noticed increasingly in the past decade. We report a case of Candida parapsilosis endocarditis after mitral valve replacement in a patient with no predisposing factors. In this report we mainly examined the pathological findings in this patient with post-mortem examination.
Otaki
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Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka National Hospital, Japan.
Kitamura
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D001344:Autopsy; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology