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Unusual association of diseases/symptoms
CASE REPORT
Native valve endocarditis, fusarium and end-stage renal disease
  1. Supradip Ghosh1,
  2. Atul Phillips2,
  3. Sonali Ghosh3,
  4. Amandeep Singh1
  1. 1Critical Care Medicine, Fortis-Escorts Hospital, Faridabad, Haryana, India
  2. 2Critical Care Medicine, SPS Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
  3. 3Pediatric Intensive Care, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, Delhi, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Supradip Ghosh, intensivist1972{at}gmail.com

Summary

We would like to report a case of invasive Fusariosis involving the native mitral valve and complicated by septic thromboembolism. The patient was a known case of end-stage renal disease on maintenance haemodialysis and did not have any of the known risk factors for invasive Fusariosis like neutropaenia, severe T cell immunodeficiency, postsolid organ transplant recipients, posthaematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients and patients who received cytotoxic and/or high-dose corticosteroid therapy.

  • chronic renal failure
  • infectious diseases

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-223290

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors SG was responsible for conception and writing of the article and management of the patient. AP and AS contributed in compiling data and reviewing the manuscript. SG contributed in reviewing the manuscript.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Parental/guardian consent obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.