Prosthetic Aortic Valve Endocarditis and Prosthetic Graft Infection in an Immune Competent Patient.

Case Rep Infect Dis

Division of Infectious Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.

Published: April 2017

is an emerging dematiaceous fungus associated with high mortality rates and is a rare cause of endocarditis. We describe the first case of endocarditis of a prosthetic aortic valve and aortic graft in an immune competent patient with no clear risk factors of hematological acquisition.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5412134PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4839314DOI Listing

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