Candida albicans tricuspid and pulmonic valve endocarditis: Challenge of relapsing risk and role of combined medical treatment and surgery

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 6-7, 2007, Pages 641-644

  Salamon, Suheil Andreas ^a   Fuursted, Kurt ^a   Egeblad, Henrik ^a   Petersen, Eskild ^a   Ott, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; METRONIDAZOLE; NYSTATIN; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MONOTHERAPY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PULMONARY VALVE; RELAPSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; THRUSH; TRICUSPID VALVE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADULT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FLUCONAZOLE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; PULMONARY VALVE; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 34347360744     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540601131968     Document Type: Article

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