Candida tropicalis endocarditis on the aortic valve with coexisting meningitis in a patient with multiple risk factors - What to do?

Grzegorz Hirnle; Michał Kapałka; Michał Krawiec; Tomasz Hrapkowicz

doi:10.1016/j.idcr.2024.e01949

Candida tropicalis endocarditis on the aortic valve with coexisting meningitis in a patient with multiple risk factors - What to do?

IDCases. 2024 Apr 15:36:e01949. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2024.e01949. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Grzegorz Hirnle¹, Michał Kapałka¹, Michał Krawiec¹, Tomasz Hrapkowicz¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Transplantology, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland.

Abstract

A 65-year-old female patient with Candida tropicalis infective endocarditis on the aortic valve underwent aortic valve replacement. In the postoperative period a head computer tomography revealed a left temporal arachnoid cyst, diagnosed as fungal meningitis. We outline a successful treatment approach for this high-risk patient.

Keywords: Aortic valve; Candida tropicalis; Endocarditis.

Publication types

Case Reports