Post operative fungal endopthalmitis due to Geotrichum candidum

Geotrichum species have been rarely reported as the cause of sepsis, disseminated infection in immunosuppressed patients. The patient we describe developed indolent endophthalmitis four months after her routine right eye cataract surgery. The intraoperative sample from right vitreous fluid grew Geot...

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Autores principales: Myint, Thein, Dykhuizen, Matthew J., McDonald, Carolyn H., Ribes, Julie A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4685175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26779419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2015.11.001
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Dykhuizen, Matthew J.
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description Geotrichum species have been rarely reported as the cause of sepsis, disseminated infection in immunosuppressed patients. The patient we describe developed indolent endophthalmitis four months after her routine right eye cataract surgery. The intraoperative sample from right vitreous fluid grew Geotrichum candidum. The patient underwent vitrectomy, artificial lens explantation and intravitreal injection of amphotericin B followed by oral voriconazole. Despite these interventions, she underwent enucleation. This is the first published case of Geotrichum candidum endophthalmitis.
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spelling pubmed-46851752016-01-15 Post operative fungal endopthalmitis due to Geotrichum candidum Myint, Thein Dykhuizen, Matthew J. McDonald, Carolyn H. Ribes, Julie A. Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Geotrichum species have been rarely reported as the cause of sepsis, disseminated infection in immunosuppressed patients. The patient we describe developed indolent endophthalmitis four months after her routine right eye cataract surgery. The intraoperative sample from right vitreous fluid grew Geotrichum candidum. The patient underwent vitrectomy, artificial lens explantation and intravitreal injection of amphotericin B followed by oral voriconazole. Despite these interventions, she underwent enucleation. This is the first published case of Geotrichum candidum endophthalmitis. Elsevier 2015-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4685175/ /pubmed/26779419 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2015.11.001 Text en © 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4685175/
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