Endocarditis due to Rhodotorula mucilaginosa in a kidney transplanted patient: case report and review of medical literature

Endocarditis caused by yeasts is currently an emerging cause of infective endocarditis and, when accompanied byfever of unknown origin, is more severe since interferes with proper diagnosis and endocarditis treatment. The Rio de Janeiro Infective Endocarditis Study Group reports a case of infectious...

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Published in:JMM Case Reports (Online) 2017-11, Vol.4 (11), p.e005119
Main Authors: Cabral, Andrea Maria, da Siveira Rioja, Suzimar, Brito-Santos, Fabio, Peres da Silva, Juliana Ribeiro, MacDowell, Maria Luíza, Melhem, Marcia S C, Mattos-Guaraldi, Ana Luíza, Hirata Junior, Raphael, Damasco, Paulo Vieira
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Summary:Endocarditis caused by yeasts is currently an emerging cause of infective endocarditis and, when accompanied byfever of unknown origin, is more severe since interferes with proper diagnosis and endocarditis treatment. The Rio de Janeiro Infective Endocarditis Study Group reports a case of infectious endocarditis (IE) with negative blood cultures in a 45-year-old white female resident in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, previously submitted to kidney transplantation. After diagnosis and intervention, the valve culture revealed . The clinical aspects and overview of endocarditis caused by spp. demonstrated that have been isolated from the last IE cases from kidney transplanted patients. Though most of the patients (in literature) recovered well from endocarditis caused by spp., physicians must be aware for diagnosis of fungemia and fungal treatment in kidney transplanted patients suffering of fever of unknown origin in the modern immunosuppressive treatment.
ISSN:2053-3721
2053-3721
DOI:10.1099/jmmcr.0.005119