COVID-19 Pandemics: A Surprising Link to Bread Flour With Collateral Damage to a Prosthetic Heart Valve

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 Oct;13(10):e011395. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.120.011395. Epub 2020 Oct 2.

Authors

Piergiorgio Tozzi¹, Eleftheria Evdokia Kampouri², Georgios Tzimas³, John O Prior⁴, Pierre Monney³, Christel Kamani⁴, Frederic Lamoth²

Affiliations

¹ Cardiac Surgery Division (P.T.), Lausanne University Hospital, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland.
² Infectious Diseases Division and Institute of Microbiology (E.E.K., F.L.), Lausanne University Hospital, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland.
³ Cardiology Service (G.T., P.M.), Lausanne University Hospital, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁴ Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Department (J.O.P., C.K.), Lausanne University Hospital, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland.

PMID: 33003958
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.120.011395

No abstract available

Keywords: aortic valve; computed tomography angiography; echocardiography; endocarditis; nuclear medicine.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use
Aortic Valve / surgery*
Aspergillosis / diagnosis
Aspergillosis / microbiology
Aspergillosis / therapy*
Aspergillus niger / drug effects
Aspergillus niger / isolation & purification*
Bread / microbiology
Cocaine / administration & dosage
Device Removal*
Drug Contamination
Female
Flour / microbiology
Heart Valve Prosthesis / adverse effects*
Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / adverse effects*
Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / instrumentation*
Humans
Prosthesis-Related Infections / diagnosis
Prosthesis-Related Infections / microbiology
Prosthesis-Related Infections / therapy*
Saccharomyces cerevisiae / drug effects
Saccharomyces cerevisiae / isolation & purification*
Substance Abuse, Intravenous / complications
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Antifungal Agents
Cocaine