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Aspergillus flavus native valve endocarditis following combined liver and renal transplantation: Case report and review of the literature.

Sultan AlsobayegNada AlshehriShamayel MohammedBahaa M FadelAli S OmraniReem Saad Almaghrabi
Published in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2018)
Aspergillus endocarditis is a rare infection that occurs most commonly in patients with prior cardiac surgery but cases in post-transplant recipients without prior cardiac surgery have been reported. Diagnosis is often delayed and requires high index of suspicion. We here report a case of Aspergillus endocarditis in solid organ transplant recipient.
Keyphrases
  • cardiac surgery
  • acute kidney injury
  • cell wall
  • mitral valve
  • aortic valve
  • heart failure
  • left ventricular
  • coronary artery disease