M. Faltoni

When standard blood cultures are negative: Sarocladium kiliense endocarditis and the need to consider rare fungal pathogens

Blood culture-negative endocarditis remains a major clinical challenge with potentially fatal consequences due to diagnostic difficulty and inadequacy of empirical antibiotic treatment. In late 2024, a 75-year-old man underwent aortic and mitral valve replacement with bioprostheses due to methicillin...