Retinal lesions as clues to disseminated bacterial and candidal infections: Frequency, natural history, and etiology

Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 187-202

  Rodríguez Adrián, Libsen J ^a,d   King, Robert T ^d   Tamayo Derat, Luis G ^d   Miller, John W ^b   Garcia, Charles A ^b   Rex, John H ^c  

^a Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION RETINOPATHY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; VITREOUS OPACITY;

EID: 0038586517     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.md.0000076008.64510.f1     Document Type: Article

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