Table 2 Cases and clinical management of Candida Parapsilosis complex prosthetic valve endocarditis
From: A case series of medically managed Candida parapsilosis complex prosthetic valve endocarditis
Age/Sex | Interval | Diagnosis | Initial therapy | Maintenance therapy | Survive | Author and references | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blood culture | Culture from focus | Antifungal drugs | Surgery | |||||
55/F | 22 days | + | / | / | / | No | Otaki et al [14] | |
67/M | / | + | / | amphotericin B; flucytosine | Yes | Oral fluconazole 400 mg daily | Yes | Darwazah et al [15] |
59/M | 11 months | + | + | amphotericin B, flucytosine | Yes | Fluconazole, 200 mg daily, for six months | Yes | Jones et al [16] |
82/M | 5 months | / | + | 7.6 g AmBisome | Yes | / | No | Jones et al [16] |
54/M | / | / | + | amphotericin B fluconazole 5-flucytosine | Yes | Amphotericin B and flucytosine | Yes | Kumar et al [17] |
44/F | 6 weeks | + | / | / | / | / | / | Mvondo, et al [18] |
36/M | 10 months | / | + | caspofungin, amphotericin B | Yes | Oral antifungal suppres-sive therapy | Yes | Pepe et al [19] |
35/F | 3 years | / | + | Amphotericin B, | Yes | / | No | Shokohi et al [20] |
47/M | 2 years | + | / | amphotericin B, 5- flucytosine, micafungin | Yes | Suppressive therapy with fluconazole | Yes | Silva-Pinto et al [21] |
31/F | / | + | + | Amphotericin B | Yes | Long-term prescription of fluconazole | Yes | Kabach et al [22] |
69/M | / | + | / | amphotericin B, micafungin, fluconazole | No | Chronic suppression with fluconazole | Yes | Ahuja et al [23] |
45/M | > 10 years | + | / | amphotericin B, micafungin, fluconazole | No | Long-term prescription of flucytosine and fluconazole | Yes | Ahuja et al [23] |
24/F | 5 years | + | / | / | Yes | Oral caspofungin and daily aspirin | Yes | Tan et al [24] |
55/M | 5 years | + | / | Voriconazole, caspofungin | No | / | Yes | Our report |
71/M | 6 months | + | / | Voriconazole, caspofungin, amphotericin B | No | Caspofungin 50 mg once a week and amphotericin B 30 mg once a week | Yes | Our report |
70/M | 4 years | + | / | Voriconazole, fluconazole | No | / | No | Our report |
64/M | 3 years | + | / | Fluconazole, caspofungin | No | / | No | Our report |