Successful treatment of ascending aortic graft and valve endocarditis after debulking splenectomy for invasive aspergillosis and mucor

American Surgeon

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1253-1255

  Nebel, Christopher ^a   Gersch, Karen ^a   Smith, J Michael ^a   Rodersheimer, L Richard ^a   Friedstrom, Scott ^a  

^a GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ARGATROBAN; POSACONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE; WARFARIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA GRAFT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ASPERGILLOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; FUNGAL ENDOCARDITIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MUCOR; SPLENECTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANEURYSM; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ASPERGILLOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SPLENECTOMY; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 73449087012     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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