No controlled trials of therapy for invasive aspergillosis have been done. This review
appraises 2,121 cases reported in 497 articles in the literature and analyzes 440 courses of …

Aspergillus spp. produce a wide range of invasive and sapropytic syndromes which may
involve any tissue. Within a given tissue or organ the pathology and pathogenesis varies …

Purpose: To review the risk factors, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of
nonvalvular infections of the cardiovascular system. Data Sources: A MEDLINE search of …

Fungal endocarditis has become an important infection associated with medical progress
and a modern lifestyle. The most common organisms isolated from patients with fungal …

Aspergillus species infections are an increasingly common occurrence in hospital wards.
Aspergillus endocarditis constitutes one of the manifestations of the disease, which bears a …

Aspergillus species infective endocarditis is uncommon and usually occurs in adult patients
who have had prior cardiac surgery (3, 35). Less commonly, infection occurs in patients who …

Background Fungal mural endocarditis is a rare entity in which the antemortem diagnosis is
seldom made. Seven cases of mural endocarditis caused by Candida spp. have been …

Mural endocarditis represents a rare subset of intracardiac infections, with potentially life
threatening sequelae. Clinically alike, with many shared aetiologies, substrates and risk …

We report a case of Aspergillus sp. mural or nonvalvular endocarditis, which was diagnosed
by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) as a vegetation attached to the anterolateral …

An unusual case of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis confined to the mural left atrium is
presented. Echocardiographic studies revealed a 1.5× 2.0-cm vegetation mimicking a …