Macular ischemia after intravitreal amikacin on patient with intraocular foreign body

Background: Although still used in third world countries, amikacin has a harmful effect to be used intravitreally. Purpose: To report macular ischemia after an intravitreal injection of amikacin Methods: A case report regarding a traumatized eye of a 26-year-old man that was injected intravitreally...

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Autores principales: Kartasasmita, Arief, Mona, Susi, Iskandar, Erwin, Sovani, Iwan, Panggabean, Djonggi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5366803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28401030
http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/oc000061
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Sumario:Background: Although still used in third world countries, amikacin has a harmful effect to be used intravitreally. Purpose: To report macular ischemia after an intravitreal injection of amikacin Methods: A case report regarding a traumatized eye of a 26-year-old man that was injected intravitreally with amikacin due to intraocular foreign body endophthalmitis Results: Angiography and OCT show macular ischemia due to amikacin toxicity. Conclusion: The case reported here is to alert about the potential harmful effect of intravitreally injected amikacin despite its role as an accepted regimen for endohthalmitis cases.

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