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IDCases
May 2023
Department of Ophtalmology, Hopital de la Citadelle, Liege, Belgium.
Infection by spp is a potentially life-threatening condition among both immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients. chorioretinitis can occur as a complication of candidemia and may develop into endophthalmitis if not detected and treated early, which can lead to irreversible visual loss. Here, we report on a 52-year-old diabetic woman who developed candidemia complicated by bilateral chorioretinitis following kidney transplantation.
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April 2021
Microbiology, Sankara Nethralaya Referral Laboratory, Medical and Vision Research Foundations, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India.
: Endogenous fungal endophthalmitis is a sight-threatening condition with potentially devastating outcome. Hematogenous spread of the infective seedings is the route of infection. Infected individuals have usually a compromised immune status.
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March 2003
Clinique d'ophtalmologie, Geneva, Suisse.
Background: To describe indocyanine green (ICG) angiography (ICGA) findings and clinical features of endogenous mycotic endophthalmitis.
Patients And Methods: Two patients (a female 62 years, a male 31 years) were addressed to investigate a progressive unilateral visual loss. Slit-lamp examination disclosed a macular chorioretinitis.
Retina
November 1995
Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Purpose: To review the presentation and course of choroidal blastomycosis, a rare chorioretinal mycotic infection, which results from disseminated blastomycosis.
Methods: Two cases of disseminated blastomycosis with ocular infection limited to the choroid are presented. Each patient was diagnosed through biopsy of skin lesions demonstrating the characteristic histologic features and the budding yeast.
The newborn with sepsis (E. coli) and salmonellosis was described. After treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics it was suffered from Candida albicans (Meningitis with Hydrocephalus internus, Chorioretinitis and Ostitis).
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