Infected Baerveldt Glaucoma Drainage Device by Aspergillus niger

Fungal endophthalmitis is rare but may complicate glaucoma drainage device surgery. Management is challenging as the symptoms and signs may be subtle at initial presentation and the visual prognosis is usually poor due to its resistant nature to treatment. At present there is lesser experience with...

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Autores principales: Salim, Nurul-Laila, Azhany, Yaakub, Abdul Rahman, Zaidah, Yusof, Roziawati, Liza-Sharmini, Ahmad Tajudin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4439503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064735
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/249419
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author Salim, Nurul-Laila
Azhany, Yaakub
Abdul Rahman, Zaidah
Yusof, Roziawati
Liza-Sharmini, Ahmad Tajudin
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description Fungal endophthalmitis is rare but may complicate glaucoma drainage device surgery. Management is challenging as the symptoms and signs may be subtle at initial presentation and the visual prognosis is usually poor due to its resistant nature to treatment. At present there is lesser experience with intravitreal injection of voriconazole as compared to Amphotericin B. We present a case of successfully treated Aspergillus endophthalmitis following Baerveldt glaucoma drainage device implantation with intravitreal and topical voriconazole.
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spelling pubmed-44395032015-06-10 Infected Baerveldt Glaucoma Drainage Device by Aspergillus niger Salim, Nurul-Laila Azhany, Yaakub Abdul Rahman, Zaidah Yusof, Roziawati Liza-Sharmini, Ahmad Tajudin Case Rep Ophthalmol Med Case Report Fungal endophthalmitis is rare but may complicate glaucoma drainage device surgery. Management is challenging as the symptoms and signs may be subtle at initial presentation and the visual prognosis is usually poor due to its resistant nature to treatment. At present there is lesser experience with intravitreal injection of voriconazole as compared to Amphotericin B. We present a case of successfully treated Aspergillus endophthalmitis following Baerveldt glaucoma drainage device implantation with intravitreal and topical voriconazole. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4439503/ /pubmed/26064735 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/249419 Text en Copyright © 2015 Nurul-Laila Salim 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4439503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064735
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/249419
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