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Purpose
To report a rapid endogenous fulminating
panophthalmitis from
Clostridium perfringens in a patient with diverticulitis and proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
A 61-year-old female with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, active proliferativeMetastatic bilateral endogenous panophthalmitis is a rare but devastating ocular infection. A young male presented with high-grade fever of 4 days duration along with rapidly progressive proptosis and loss of vision in both eyes. Systemic examination revealed bronchopneumonia and the blood culture
Purpose
- Two rare and unusual cases of endogenous
panophthalmitis from
Serratia marcescens are presented with mechanisms for infection explored.
Observations - The first patient had history of intravenous drug use (IVDU) without any medical implants. The second
A 13-year-old boy developed Clostridium perfringens panophthalmitis due to a penetrating scleral injury. The characteristic symptoms were unusually severe periocular pain, lid edema, decreased motility and protrusion of the eye, severe conjunctival chemosis, pus covering the conjunctiva and cornea,
Tick-transmitted borreliosis is by no means a rare infectious disease. It is found especially in southern parts of Germany. Eyes are seldom affected. The disease can lead to nerve palsy of the eye muscles. One case of panophthalmitis and one of optic disk edema have been described. The authors found
We present here the first case in the People's Republic of China of human disease caused by the fungus Arthrographis kalrae. The male patient had fungal panophthalmitis and invasive sinusitis involving the maxillary and ethmoid sinuses. He was an apparently healthy man before receiving trauma to his
OBJECTIVE
To report an unusual case of community-acquired Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia in an immunocompetent host complicated by orbital cellulitis, panophthalmitis, and subcutaneous nodules.
METHODS
An otherwise healthy 47-year-old woman presented with a 24-hour history of fever, cutaneous
Necrotizing fasciitis is a life-threatening, fulminant disease that is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Presenting with a triad of findings including progressive erythema, severe dermatological edema and severe pain disproportionate to the physical findings, this disease is a surgical
In 2009, a virulent strain of Aeromonas hydrophila caused severe disease and high mortalities (motile aeromonad septicemia variant [MASv]) in farmed channel catfish ( Ictalurus punctatus) and hybrid catfish ( I. punctatus × I. furcatus) in eastern Mississippi and Alabama. As is common in MAS, there