A Severe Case of Arthrographis kalrae Keratomycosis

A 52-year-old man with diabetes developed a unilateral central corneal ulcer after accidental foreign body inoculation. He complained of pain and loss of visual acuity in the injured eye, which displayed redness and edema and eventually discharged pus. A corneal scraping from the left eye orbit reve...

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Autores principales: Ramli, Siti Roszilawati, Francis, Alex Lourdes, Yusof, Yushaniza, Khaithir, Tzar Mohd Nizam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3860077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24377053
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/851875
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author Ramli, Siti Roszilawati
Francis, Alex Lourdes
Yusof, Yushaniza
Khaithir, Tzar Mohd Nizam
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description A 52-year-old man with diabetes developed a unilateral central corneal ulcer after accidental foreign body inoculation. He complained of pain and loss of visual acuity in the injured eye, which displayed redness and edema and eventually discharged pus. A corneal scraping from the left eye orbit revealed fungal elements, and cultures of the material grew a fungus. The isolate was identified as Arthrographis kalrae based on gross and microscopic morphologies. The patient received amphotericin B intravenously and itraconazole orally. The wound healed following surgical intervention, but the patient lost the use of his left eye.
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spelling pubmed-38600772013-12-29 A Severe Case of Arthrographis kalrae Keratomycosis Ramli, Siti Roszilawati Francis, Alex Lourdes Yusof, Yushaniza Khaithir, Tzar Mohd Nizam Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report A 52-year-old man with diabetes developed a unilateral central corneal ulcer after accidental foreign body inoculation. He complained of pain and loss of visual acuity in the injured eye, which displayed redness and edema and eventually discharged pus. A corneal scraping from the left eye orbit revealed fungal elements, and cultures of the material grew a fungus. The isolate was identified as Arthrographis kalrae based on gross and microscopic morphologies. The patient received amphotericin B intravenously and itraconazole orally. The wound healed following surgical intervention, but the patient lost the use of his left eye. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3860077/ /pubmed/24377053 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/851875 Text en Copyright © 2013 Siti Roszilawati Ramli et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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