Visual and anatomical outcome following submacular surgery for choroidal neovascularization secondary to Candida endophthalmitis

Retina

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 323-329

  Recchia, Franco M ^a   Shah, Guarav K ^a,b   Eagle, Ralph C ^a   Sivalingam, Arunan ^a   Fischer, David H ^a  

^a WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida; Chorioretinitis; Choroidal neovascularization; Endophthalmitis; Fungemia; Submacular surgery

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OCULAR FIBROSIS; RETINA SURGERY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDIASIS; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 0036627271     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006982-200206000-00011     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. McDonnell PJ, McDonnell JM, Brown RH, Green WR. Ocular involvement in patients with fungal infections. Ophthalmology 1985;92:706-709.
2. Parke DW II, Jones DB, Gentry LO. Endogenous endophthalmitis among patients with candidemia. Ophthalmology 1982;89:789-796.
3. Griffin JR, Pettit TH, Fishman LS, Foos RY. Blood-borne Candida endophthalmitis: a clinical and pathologic study of 21 cases. Arch Ophthalmol 1973;89:450-456.
4. Michelson PE, Stark W, Reeser F, Green WR. Endogenous Candida endophthalmitis. Int Ophthalmol Clin 1971;11:125-147.
5. Essman TF, Flynn HW Jr, Smiddy WE, et al. Treatment outcomes in a 10-year study of endogenous fungal endophthalmitis. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers 1997;28:185-194.
6. Donahue SP, Greven CM, Zuravleff JL, et al. Intraocular candidiasis in patients with candidemia: clinical implications derived from a prospective multicenter study. Ophthalmology 1994;101:1302-1309.
7. Brooks RG. Prospective study of Candida endophthalmitis in hospitalized patients with candidemia. Arch Intern Med 1989;149:2226-2228.
8. Jampol LM, Sung J, Walker JD, et al. Choroidal neovascularization secondary to Candida albicans chorioretinitis. Am J Ophthalmol 1996;121:643-649.
9. Adelberg DA, Del Priore LV, Kaplan HJ. Surgery for subfoveal membranes in myopia, angioid streaks, and other disorders. Retina 1995;15:198-205.
10. Shah GK, Fischer D, Fineman MS, Sharma S, Maguire J. Subretinal neovascularization secondary to Candida endophthalmitis: long-term follow-up after submacular surgery. Retina 1999;19:81-82.
11. Weinstein RA. Nosocomial infection update. Emerg Infect Dis 1998;4:416-420.
12. Barrie T. The place of elective vitrectomy in the management of patients with Candida endophthalmitis. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1987;225:107-113.
13. Snip RC, Michels RG. Pars plana vitrectomy in the management of endogenous Candida endophthalmitis. Am J Ophthalmol 1976;82:699-704.
14. Beebe WE, Kirkland C, Price J. A subretinal neovascular membrane as a complication of endogenous Candida endophthalmitis. Ann Ophthalmol 1987;19:207-209.
15. Thomas MA, Grand MG, Williams DF, et al. Surgical management of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization. Ophthalmology 1992;99:952-968.
16. Thomas MA, Dickinson JD, Melberg NS, et al. Visual results after surgical removal of subfoveal choroidal neovascular membranes. Ophthalmology 1994;101:1384-1396.
17. Berger AS, Kaplan HJ. Clinical experience with the surgical removal of subfoveal neovascular membranes. Short-term postoperative results. Ophthalmology 1992;99:969-976.
18. Del Priore LV, Hornbeck R, Kaplan HJ, et al. Debridement of the pig retinal pigment epithelium in vivo. Arch Ophthalmol 1995;113:939-944.
19. Gass JDM. Biomicroscopic and histologic considerations regarding the feasibility of surgical excision of subfoveal neovascular membranes. Am J Ophthalmol 1994;18:285-298.
20. Grossniklaus HF, Gass JDM. Clinicopathologic correlations of surgically excised type 1 and type 2 submacular choroidal neovascular membranes. Am J Ophthalmol 1998;126:59-69.