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Candida Endophthalmitis After Tattooing in an Asplenic Patient
Anastasia Alexandridou, MD;
Aaron Y. Reginald, MD;
Panagiota Stavrou, FRCS;
Graham R. Kirkby, FRCS, FRCOphth
Birmingham, England
Corresponding author and reprints: Panagiota Stavrou, FRCS, Birmingham
and Midland Eye Centre, City Hospital NHS Trust, Birmingham B18 7QU, England
(e-mail: panagiotastavrou@hotmail.com).
Arch Ophthalmol. 2002;120:518-519.
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A 40-YEAR-OLD MAN had a red right eye and reduced vision for 4 days.
A tattoo had been applied 1 week earlier (Figure 1), and he had undergone splenectomy after trauma in childhood.
Visual acuity was 20/40 OD and 20/20 OS. Examination of the right eye revealed
1+ cells in the anterior chamber, 2+ cells and debris in the vitreous body,
and disc hyperemia. A white, fluffy chorioretinal lesion was noted along the
inferotemporal vascular arcade (Figure 2). Examination findings from the left eye were unremarkable. Candida albicans grew from a culture sample obtained from the vitreous
body after diagnostic vitrectomy. After surgery, fluorescein angiography showed
leakage associated with the chorioretinal lesion, masking from a retinal hemorrhage,
and vascular leakage (Figure 3).
The patient responded well to intravenous administration . . . [Full Text of this Article]COMMENT
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