Acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis caused by multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

The purpose of this paper is to report outcomes of intravitreal imipenem in the treatment of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella-related postoperative endophthalmitis. This observational case series consists of three eyes from three patients seen between 2013 and 2014. Multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneu...

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Autores principales: Sanghi, Shekhar, Pathengay, Avinash, Jindal, Animesh, Raval, Vishal, Nayak, Sameera, Sharma, Savitri, Bawdekar, Abhishek, Flynn, Harry W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
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Case Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25258505
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S67894
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author Sanghi, Shekhar
Pathengay, Avinash
Jindal, Animesh
Raval, Vishal
Nayak, Sameera
Sharma, Savitri
Bawdekar, Abhishek
Flynn, Harry W
author_facet Sanghi, Shekhar
Pathengay, Avinash
Jindal, Animesh
Raval, Vishal
Nayak, Sameera
Sharma, Savitri
Bawdekar, Abhishek
Flynn, Harry W
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description The purpose of this paper is to report outcomes of intravitreal imipenem in the treatment of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella-related postoperative endophthalmitis. This observational case series consists of three eyes from three patients seen between 2013 and 2014. Multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae is characterized by a rapid, fulminant course and severe intraocular inflammation. Intravitreal imipenem may be used to treat such infection.
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spelling pubmed-41721972014-09-25 Acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis caused by multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Sanghi, Shekhar Pathengay, Avinash Jindal, Animesh Raval, Vishal Nayak, Sameera Sharma, Savitri Bawdekar, Abhishek Flynn, Harry W Clin Ophthalmol Case Series The purpose of this paper is to report outcomes of intravitreal imipenem in the treatment of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella-related postoperative endophthalmitis. This observational case series consists of three eyes from three patients seen between 2013 and 2014. Multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae is characterized by a rapid, fulminant course and severe intraocular inflammation. Intravitreal imipenem may be used to treat such infection. Dove Medical Press 2014-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4172197/ /pubmed/25258505 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S67894 Text en © 2014 Sanghi et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed.
spellingShingle Case Series
Sanghi, Shekhar
Pathengay, Avinash
Jindal, Animesh
Raval, Vishal
Nayak, Sameera
Sharma, Savitri
Bawdekar, Abhishek
Flynn, Harry W
Acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis caused by multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
title Acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis caused by multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_full Acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis caused by multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_fullStr Acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis caused by multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_full_unstemmed Acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis caused by multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_short Acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis caused by multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
title_sort acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis caused by multidrug-resistant klebsiella pneumoniae
topic Case Series
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25258505
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S67894
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