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  • Title: A subretinal neovascular membrane as a complication of endogenous Candida endophthalmitis.
    Author: Beebe WE, Kirkland C, Price J.
    Journal: Ann Ophthalmol; 1987 Jun; 19(6):207-9. PubMed ID: 2441641.
    Abstract:
    A 21-year-old woman developed endophthalmitis and a macular chorioretinal lesion secondarily to a Candida infection. She had been receiving intensive systemic antibiotic and steroid therapy for pelvic inflammatory disease. Blood cultures confirmed a Candida albicans septicemia, and amphotericin B was administered intravenously. As the eye inflammation resolved, healing of the chorioretinal lesion was complicated by the development of a subretinal neovascular membrane. The authors hypothesize that the formation of the membrane was related to an inflammatory alteration of the pigment epithelium--Bruch's membrane--choriocapillaris complex. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first such report following a Candida infection of the eye.
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