Disseminated Aspergillus fumigatus infection with consecutive mitral valve endocarditis in a lung transplant recipient

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2297-2300

  Scherer, Mirela ^a   Fieguth, Hans Gerd ^a   Aybek, Tayfun ^a   Ujvari, Zsolt ^a   Moritz, Anton ^a   Wimmer Greinecker, Gerhard ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPOFUNGIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; ITRACONAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISONE; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRAIN INFECTION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRAIN DISEASES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ENDOCARDITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 29144489100     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2005.06.006     Document Type: Article

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