Intravitreal daptomycin in a case of bilateral endogenous endophthalmitis

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 130, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 940-941

  Buzzacco, Dominic M ^a   Carroll, C Patrick ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Retina Physicians and Surgeons   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DAPTOMYCIN; PREDNISOLONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ACUTE CONFUSION; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BILATERAL ENDOGENOUS ENDOPHTHALMITIS; BILATERAL ENDOGENOUS ENDOPTHALMITIS; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAREGIVER; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHRONIC PATIENT; DISORIENTATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EYE SYNECHIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANT; MALAISE; MENTAL HEALTH; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURISY; POSTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS; RETIREMENT; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DAPTOMYCIN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MITRAL VALVE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84863808567     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2011.2527     Document Type: Article

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