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Unilateral endogenous fungal endophthalmitis after esophageal cancer surgery: a case report
BACKGROUND: This study reports a case of Unilateral Endogenous Fungal Endophthalmitis After Esophageal Cancer Surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: One patient presented with a month-long loss of vision in his left eye, he had surgery for esophageal cancer 2 months earlier. The patient underwent cataract surg...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6299646/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30563477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3607-6 |
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author | Yi, Quan-Yong Li, Wen-die Chen, Li-shuang Bai, Zhi-Sha |
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description | BACKGROUND: This study reports a case of Unilateral Endogenous Fungal Endophthalmitis After Esophageal Cancer Surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: One patient presented with a month-long loss of vision in his left eye, he had surgery for esophageal cancer 2 months earlier. The patient underwent cataract surgery (by phacoemulsification) in the left eye combined with 25-gauge vitrectomy and silicone oil tamponade. The microbiological culture pointed to infection with Candida albicans. At 3-month follow-up, the unaided visual acuity of left eye was 0.02 and corrected visual acuity was 0.2. In addition, there was no recurrence of the endophthalmitis within 1 year of the surgery. CONCLUSION: The early diagnosis of endogenous fungal endophthalmitis is difficult, and the disease is very likely to be misdiagnosed as uveitis. It is therefore critical to improve awareness of this condition and to reduce the incidence of its misdiagnosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-62996462018-12-20 Unilateral endogenous fungal endophthalmitis after esophageal cancer surgery: a case report Yi, Quan-Yong Li, Wen-die Chen, Li-shuang Bai, Zhi-Sha BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: This study reports a case of Unilateral Endogenous Fungal Endophthalmitis After Esophageal Cancer Surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: One patient presented with a month-long loss of vision in his left eye, he had surgery for esophageal cancer 2 months earlier. The patient underwent cataract surgery (by phacoemulsification) in the left eye combined with 25-gauge vitrectomy and silicone oil tamponade. The microbiological culture pointed to infection with Candida albicans. At 3-month follow-up, the unaided visual acuity of left eye was 0.02 and corrected visual acuity was 0.2. In addition, there was no recurrence of the endophthalmitis within 1 year of the surgery. CONCLUSION: The early diagnosis of endogenous fungal endophthalmitis is difficult, and the disease is very likely to be misdiagnosed as uveitis. It is therefore critical to improve awareness of this condition and to reduce the incidence of its misdiagnosis. BioMed Central 2018-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6299646/ /pubmed/30563477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3607-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Yi, Quan-Yong Li, Wen-die Chen, Li-shuang Bai, Zhi-Sha Unilateral endogenous fungal endophthalmitis after esophageal cancer surgery: a case report |
title | Unilateral endogenous fungal endophthalmitis after esophageal cancer surgery: a case report |
title_full | Unilateral endogenous fungal endophthalmitis after esophageal cancer surgery: a case report |
title_fullStr | Unilateral endogenous fungal endophthalmitis after esophageal cancer surgery: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Unilateral endogenous fungal endophthalmitis after esophageal cancer surgery: a case report |
title_short | Unilateral endogenous fungal endophthalmitis after esophageal cancer surgery: a case report |
title_sort | unilateral endogenous fungal endophthalmitis after esophageal cancer surgery: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6299646/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30563477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3607-6 |
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