Late-onset Candida keratitis after Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty: Clinical and confocal microscopic report

European Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 498-502

  Ortiz Gomariz, Amanda ^a   Higueras Esteban, Alejandro ^a   Gutiérrez Ortega, Ángel Ramón ^a   González Méijome, José M ^b   Arance Gil, Angeles ^c   Villa Collar, César ^c  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c Clinica Oftalmologica Novovision   (Spain)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Confocal microscopy; DSAEK; Fungal keratitis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BRIMONIDINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPLEGIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; DORZOLAMIDE; PREDNISOLONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TIMOLOL; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

AGED; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA INFILTRATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EPIPHORA; EPITHELIUM CELL; EYE DISEASE; EYE REDNESS; FEMALE; HAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPYON; INFLAMMATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOMYCOSIS; LENTICULE; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MICROBIOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CANDIDIASIS; CATARACT; CORNEAL ULCER; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PYRIMIDINES; TRIAZOLES; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 79957867194     PISSN: 11206721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5301/EJO.2011.6228     Document Type: Article

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