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  • Title: Treatment of Candida endophthalmitis.
    Author: Kinyoun JL.
    Journal: Retina; 1982; 2(4):215-22. PubMed ID: 6101128.
    Abstract:
    A 51-year-old man who was being treated with corticosteroids for chronic extrinsic asthma developed biliary tract sepsis, candidemia, and Candida endophthalmitis with vitreous fluff-ball lesions in both eyes. Extensive vitreous fibrosis and retinal detachment with loss of useful vision occurred in his left eye, which had a vitreous biopsy. Useful vision was maintained in his right eye with two full courses of systemic amphotericin B, 5-flucytosine, and a cataract extraction. Encapsulated Candida organisms remained in the vitreous of his right eye at the time of death. Useful vision can be preserved without aggressive vitreous surgery and intravitreal anti-fungal agents in eyes with intravitreal Candida albicans.
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