Medical therapy of metastatic meningococcal endophthalmitis.
We treated a 15-year-old girl who had meningococcal meningitis and metastatic endophthalmitis with large doses of intravenously administered penicillin G. The patient promptly improved with this therapy, and the visual axis completely cleared during the subsequent five months.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D009877:Endophthalmitis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008585:Meningitis, Meningococcal / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D009345:Neisseria meningitidis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010400:Penicillin G / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D010400:Penicillin G