A retrospective study of 35 case reports of Aspergillus endocarditis published between 2003
and 2009 was carried out. Fifteen percent of cases presented with a new cardiac murmur …

Aspergillus species causing endocarditis on a native heart valve is a rare occurrence with
an exceedingly high mortality. This report describes a 60-year-old man who developed …

Aspergillus pericarditis is a rare and life‐threatening infection in immunosuppressed
patients. It has nonspecific clinical manifestations that often mimic other disease entities …

Systemic aspergillosis caused byAspergillus nigeroccurred in a 9-year-old boy after he had
undergone open-heart surgery. There were several possible alternate routes of inoculation …

Somay YAMAGATA-MURAYAMA** and Hideyo YAMAGUCHI*** Division of Hematology
and* Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan,** Department of …

M yocardial abscess is a well-recognized and seri-ous complication of endocarditis,
occurring in up to 20 percent of cases with the acute form of the disease [l] …

The efficacy of amphotericin B, 5-fluorocytosine and itraconazole was compared for the
treatment of experimental rabbit Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis. Therapy with …

Native valve fungal endocarditis is an uncommon disease with a high mortality rate. We
present the clinical features, histological findings and outcome of 2 patients with native valve …

Aspergillus native valve endocarditis continues to be a lethal disease, even when maximal
therapeutic options are taken. We describe herein a patient with mitral valve endocarditis …

Aspergillus endocarditis is associated with a very high mortality. Of approximately 67 cases
reported in the English language literature, there have been only two known survivors. This …