… to determine the various clinical predictors of mortality (age, … cases with Aspergillus endocarditis
were immunocompetent. … ruled out entirely due to the retrospective nature of the study. …

… Diagnosis of aspergillus endocarditis is often delayed due to the low propensity for Aspergillus
… to exclude IE but it has a very high positive predictive value if uptake in the valve is high. …

… In another retrospective study in Spain and France of … Its primary utility is its high negative
predictive value (113). … Patients with Aspergillus endocarditis may also progress to Aspergillus …

… Aspergillus endocarditis is rare but is associated with a very high mortality … predictive factors
and key clinical features can help to differentiate aspergillosis from non-fungal endocarditis …

… The main limitation of this study is its single-center retrospective design. A selection bias …
consistent predictors of poor outcome. Future research should avoid retrospective analyses by …

… medications used to treat Candida endocarditis. Voriconazole is effective against a … Aspergillus,
and Fusarium. Amphotericin B has been used to treat endocarditis caused by Aspergillus…

… of refractory Aspergillus infection in the literature(27). Candida albicans, Aspergillus fumigatus…
Ethics Committee Approval: Because of its being a retrospective clinical article, we did not …

… , diagnosis and therapeutic interventions in CNS aspergillosis patients. We also aimed to
examine the possible predictors … Cardiac involvement (endocarditis) was noted in 12.5% of the …

… The data from the retrospective studies from 1997 to 2007 … of endocarditis (eg, Histoplasma
capsulatum, Aspergillus … is a strong predictor of short-term adverse outcomes in IE patients, …

… A similar short-term mortality result (20%) was reported in a previous meta-analysis [33].
Predictors of mortality have varied in different studies. In one study [34], the main predictors of …