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  • Title: [Candida chorioretinitis in drug addicts. Apropos of 2 cases].
    Author: Le Thien L, Fajnkuchen F, Chaine G.
    Journal: J Fr Ophtalmol; 1998 May; 21(5):387-92. PubMed ID: 9759433.
    Abstract:
    We report two cases of candidal chorioretinitis occurring to two friends who abused of intravenous crack using the same syringe . An endophthalmitis "a minima" due to a therapeutic delay arose in one patient, when a rare spontaneous healing happened to the second patient. In both cases, an epiretinal membrane is noted after the lesions scarred. Ocular candidal infection is a typical complication occurring to intravenous drug addicts. The visual prognosis depends not only on early diagnosis and treatment, but also on a strict follow-up because late complications are frequent in spite of the healing of initial lesions.
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