Acute postoperative endophthalmitis by Gemella haemolysans

Endophthalmitis is a rare and serious post-surgical complication. We report a case of acute postoperative endophthalmitis after an uneventful cataract surgery caused by a commensal organism, Gemella haemolysans. The patient was successfully treated with vitrectomy and intravitreal antibiotics like v...

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Autores principales: Nalamada, Suma, Jalali, Subhadra, Reddy, Ashok Kumar
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2886264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20413936
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.62658
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author Nalamada, Suma
Jalali, Subhadra
Reddy, Ashok Kumar
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description Endophthalmitis is a rare and serious post-surgical complication. We report a case of acute postoperative endophthalmitis after an uneventful cataract surgery caused by a commensal organism, Gemella haemolysans. The patient was successfully treated with vitrectomy and intravitreal antibiotics like vancomycin, along with topical cefazolin.
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spelling pubmed-28862642010-07-02 Acute postoperative endophthalmitis by Gemella haemolysans Nalamada, Suma Jalali, Subhadra Reddy, Ashok Kumar Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Endophthalmitis is a rare and serious post-surgical complication. We report a case of acute postoperative endophthalmitis after an uneventful cataract surgery caused by a commensal organism, Gemella haemolysans. The patient was successfully treated with vitrectomy and intravitreal antibiotics like vancomycin, along with topical cefazolin. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2886264/ /pubmed/20413936 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.62658 Text en © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Brief Communications
Nalamada, Suma
Jalali, Subhadra
Reddy, Ashok Kumar
Acute postoperative endophthalmitis by Gemella haemolysans
title Acute postoperative endophthalmitis by Gemella haemolysans
title_full Acute postoperative endophthalmitis by Gemella haemolysans
title_fullStr Acute postoperative endophthalmitis by Gemella haemolysans
title_full_unstemmed Acute postoperative endophthalmitis by Gemella haemolysans
title_short Acute postoperative endophthalmitis by Gemella haemolysans
title_sort acute postoperative endophthalmitis by gemella haemolysans
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2886264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20413936
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.62658
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