Echocardiography in Aspergillus endocarditis

Kleiman, M.B.

Pediatrics 69(2): 252-253

1982


ISSN/ISBN: 0031-4005
PMID: 7036080
Document Number: 190809
A case is reported in a 11-yr-old girl in whom the 2-dimensional echocardiogram first established the presence of a mycotic aneurysm and associated intracardiac and intra-aortic vegetations, following heart surgery. A. fumigatus was cultured from thrombi removed from both femoral arteries during cannulation. Despite replacement of the aortic valve with a prosthesis and amphotericin B therapy, the patient died.

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