As PREDICTED by Zimmermant in 1950, invasive mycotic infection has increased in
frequency and importance. Aging of the population and burgeoning numbers of hosts …

Fungal endocarditis is rare, although its reported incidence has been rising coincident with
the widespread use of steroids, antibiotics, cytotoxic agents, the advent of cardiac surgery …

The almost uniformly fatal outcome ofAspergillusendocarditis, most of which has occurred
on prosthetic cardiac valves, has been well documented. 1, 2 The difficulty in the diagnosis …

Fungal mural endocarditis is a rare entity in which the antemortem diagnosis is seldom
made. This case presentation describes a patient in whom the clinical diagnosis of …

Infectious mural endocarditis is uncommon and not well documented. The clinical setting
and pathologic features of five patients with Aspergillus mural endocarditis are described …

We have described an elderly man with no known underlying predisposing systemic or
valvular disease who had mitral valve infection and endophthalmitis due to Aspergillus …

Aspergillus flavus endocarditis developed in a 13 year old girl after mitral valve replacement.
Thirty-nine other cases of Aspergillus species endocarditis were found in the medical …

A case of widely disseminated, fatal, vegetative aortic endocarditis due to Aspergillus
fumigatus is described. The diagnosis was established during life when a surgically …

Aspergillus flavus mural endocarditis was diagnosed after death in a 19-year-old man who
had undergone orthotopic liver transplantation 4 months before death. His course was …

The exposure to Aspergillus organisms/spores is likely common, but disease caused by
tissue invasion with these fungi is uncommon and occurs primarily in the setting of …