Endogenous Ocular Nocardiosis-An Interventional Case Report With a Review of the Literature

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 383-415

  Eschle Meniconi, Margherita E ^a   Guex Crosier, Yan ^a   Wolfensberger, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amikacin; Chorioretinal exudates; Chorioretinitis; Endogenous ocular Nocardia infection; Endophthalmitis; Hypopyon; Nocardiosis; Resistance; Subretinal abscess; Trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole; Uveitis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BLEOMYCIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DOXORUBICIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROCARBON; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MEROPENEM; PREDNISONE; RIFAMPICIN; SILICONE OIL; STEROID; TIOGUANINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VINBLASTINE;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; CHORIORETINAL SCAR; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENUCLEATION; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; GAZE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HAND MOVEMENT; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPOPYON; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LYMPHOCYTOMA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MESENCEPHALON; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NECK; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NOCARDIOSIS; NODULAR SCLEROSIS HODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PANCYTOPENIA; PARS PLANA VITRECTOMY; PERFORATING EYE INJURY; PNEUMONIA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; RECURRENCE RISK; RETINA; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA SURGERY; RETINECTOMY; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; RISK FACTOR; SCAR; SCHOOL CHILD; SMEAR; STIFF NECK; SUBRETINAL ABSCESS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSVITREAL SUBRETINAL FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION; ULTRASOUND; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITRECTOMY; VITREORETINAL SURGERY; VITREOUS BODY;

ABSCESS; AGED; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; RETINAL DISEASES; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 80051672000     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: 18793304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2011.03.003     Document Type: Review

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