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Daniel F. Goodman, MD; Walter H. Stern, MD
San Francisco

Arch Ophthalmol. 1987;105(2):172-173.

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To the Editor.

—Postoperative Candida parapsilosis endophthalmitis occurred in a group of patients secondary to the administration of a contaminated lot of intraocular irrigating solution. All patients underwent subsequent therapeutic vitrectomy combined with intravitreal amphotericin B, intravenous intraocular amphotericin B, and oral flucytosine therapy; this group of 15 patients has previously been described.¹ We recently treated an additional patient who was exposed to the same lot of contaminated irrigating solution and had a prolonged delay in the presentation of postoperative C parapsilosis endophthalmitis.

Report of a Case.

—An 89-year-old healthy man underwent extracapsular cataract extraction with implantation of an anterior chamber intraocular lens in the right eye in July 1983. Postoperatively, he had a mild persistent iridocyclitis that was treated intermittently with a topical corticosteroid over the ensuing two years.

Two months before our examination, the patient noted a mild increase in redness in the eye that had been . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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