Absidia corymbifera endocarditis: Survival after treatment of disseminated mucormycosis with radical resection of tricuspid valve and right ventricular free wall

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Mitchell, Michael E ^a   McManus, Michael ^b   Dietz, Julie ^b   Camitta, Bruce M ^a   Szabo, Sara ^a   Havens, Peter ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Saint Joseph's Hospital Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ASPARAGINASE MACROGOL; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DOPAMINE; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; MILRINONE; POSACONAZOLE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ABSIDIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANNULOPLASTY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED MUCORMYCOSIS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGUS GROWTH; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE LEAFLET; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TACHYCARDIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TRICUSPID VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR; TRICUSPID VALVE STENOSIS;

ABSIDIA; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MUCORMYCOSIS; PRECURSOR T-CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 77949452340     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.07.073     Document Type: Article

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