Left ventricular assist device outflow cannula obstruction by the rare environmental fungus Myceliophthora thermophila

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-75

  Weitzel, Nathaen ^a,b   Puskas, Ferenc ^a   Cleveland, Joseph ^a   Levi, Marilyn E ^a   Seres, Tamas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Department of Anesthesia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; VORICONAZOLE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEVER; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE OUTFLOW CANNULA OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYCELIOPHTHORA THERMOPHILA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; DEUTEROMYCETES; DEVICE REMOVAL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REVIEW; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DEVICE REMOVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MYCOSES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS;

EID: 58749108305     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318187b8fc     Document Type: Article

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