1. Bilateral panophthalmitis as the initial presentation of meningococcal meningitis in an infant.
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Gartaganis SP, Eliopoulou MJ, Georgakopoulos CD, Koliopoulos JX, and Mela EK
- Subjects
- Ceftriaxone administration & dosage, Cerebrospinal Fluid microbiology, Chloramphenicol administration & dosage, Dexamethasone administration & dosage, Drug Therapy, Combination therapeutic use, Female, Humans, Infant, Meningitis, Meningococcal complications, Meningitis, Meningococcal drug therapy, Neisseria meningitidis isolation & purification, Panophthalmitis drug therapy, Panophthalmitis etiology, Rifampin administration & dosage, Meningitis, Meningococcal diagnosis, Panophthalmitis diagnosis
- Abstract
Endophthalmitis is a well-recognized, frequently devastating ophthalmic disease. The colonization of the eye and the subsequent development of endophthalmitis may be exogenous (including postsurgical and post-traumatic infections) or it may be of endogenous origin, representing a metastasis from a focus of infection elsewhere in the body associated with bacteremia (such as meningitis or cellulitis).
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- 2001
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