Open AccessProsthetic valve endocarditis caused by multidrug-resistant Candida albicans in a patient with myelodysplasia syndrome: A case report and literature review
Author(s) -
Firoozeh Kermani,
Tahereh Shokohi,
Mahdi Abastabar,
Lotfollah Davoodi,
Shervin Ziabakhsh Tabari,
Rozita Jalalian,
Shirin Mehdipour,
Roghayeh Mirzakhani
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
current medical mycology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.369
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2423-3439
pISSN - 2423-3420
DOI - 10.18502/cmm.4.3.171
Subject(s) - endocarditis , medicine , candida albicans , multiple drug resistance , microbiology and biotechnology , surgery , antibiotics , biology
Candida endocarditis is an infrequent disease with a high mortality rate, which commonly occurs in immunosuppressed patients with cardiac valve replacement. We reported a 70-year-old woman diagnosed with Candida prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE). This study also involved a review of all published cases of Candida PVE from 1970.