Candida albicans endocarditis with giant vegetation from an implantable cardioverter-defribrillator lead

Surgical Infections

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 157-159

  Grunberg, Wendie ^a   Al Bataineh, Mohammad ^a   Weiss, Steven ^a  

^a MERCY CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS;

EID: 84875208480     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2011.027     Document Type: Article

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