Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by multidrug-resistant Candida albicans in a patient with myelodysplasia syndrome: A case report and literature review

• Main Authors: Firoozeh Kermani (Author), Tahereh Shokohi (Author), Mahdi Abastabar (Author), Lotfollah Davoodi (Author), Shervin Ziabakhsh Tabari (Author), Rozita Jalalian (Author), Shirin Mehdipour (Author), Roghayeh Mirzakhani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background and Purpose: Candida endocarditis is an infrequent disease with a high mortality rate, which commonly occurs in immunosuppressed patients with cardiac valve replacement. We reported a 70-year-old woman diagnosed with Candida prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE). This study also involved a...