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
Affiliations
Grzegorz Hirnle
Correspondence to: Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Department of Cardiac Surgery and Heart Transplantology, Silesian Medical University, Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 9, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland.; 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
Michał Kapałka
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
Michał Krawiec
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
Tomasz Hrapkowicz
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
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.
