Obstructive shock secondary to fungal prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis
Journal Title: World Journal of Emergency Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 3
Abstract
Fungal endocarditis is a rare disease with a poor prognosis, suboptimal diagnostic tools responsible for long diagnostic delays in most cases, and poorly defined activity of most antifungal agents in endocarditis.[1] The burden of diagnosis still lies with clinicians: they need a high index of suspicion the entity by understanding the organisms and the patients who are likely to be infected.[2,3] We present an exceptional case with obstruction of the left ventricle outflow tract (LVOT) causing sudden cardiac arrest.
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