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George A. Stern, MD; Carl L. Fetkenhour, MD; Richard B. O'Grady, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1977;95(1):89-93.

Abstract
• A 43-year-old heroin addict with Candida albicans endophthalmitis was treated with a single 5-µg intravitreal injection of amphotericin B. The diagnosis was confirmed by smears and cultures of a vitreous aspiration. The patient's accidental death seven weeks after treatment enabled us to obtain histopathologic evidence that the infection had been cured and that the amphotericin B had had no toxic effect on the retina. Intravitreal amphotericin B should be considered an important mode of treatment of Candida endophthalmitis.

(Arch Ophthalmol 95:89-93, 1977)

Author Affiliations
From the Retina and Pathology Services, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication May 28, 1976.

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