A medical epopee: recurrent fungal endocarditis, heart transplantation and chylopericardium.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Candida prosthetic endocarditis is associated with high mortality rates and valve replacement surgery, together with antifungal treatment, play a major role in eradicating the fungal infection. Valve reoperations in these scenarios may be relatively common due to the high infection relapse rates and, in some cases, heart transplantation may be an imposing therapy for infection resolution and for the heart failure related to the myocardial reoperation injury. Among the many postoperative complications related to heart transplantation, chylopericardium is a rare but challenging example.

Case presentation

We report the case of a 55-year-old man who was admitted to our hospital with a 1-month history of progressive dyspnea and fatigue. His past medical history include

SUBMITTER: de Santis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7603709 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature