Timing of Surgery for Fungal Infective Endocarditis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.1750Abstract
Fungal endocarditis rarely occurs and is difficult to treat. Taguchi et al described that a 55-year-old man, who developed severe mitral regurgitation with persistent fungal infective endocarditis (IE) 8 months after coronary artery bypass grafting, was cured with mitral valve replacement via the anterolateral right thoracotomy without cross-clamping method [Taguchi 2016].
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