Bilateral panophthalmitis as the initial presentation of meningococcal meningitis in an infant.
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).
Gartaganis
S P
SP
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece.
Eliopoulou
M J
MJ
Georgakopoulos
C D
CD
Koliopoulos
J X
JX
Mela
E K
EK
D002443:Ceftriaxone / Q000008:administration & dosage; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000382:microbiology; D002701:Chloramphenicol / Q000008:administration & dosage; D003907:Dexamethasone / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008585:Meningitis, Meningococcal / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D009345:Neisseria meningitidis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010202:Panophthalmitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D012293:Rifampin / Q000008:administration & dosage
D002701:Chloramphenicol; D002443:Ceftriaxone; D003907:Dexamethasone; D012293:Rifampin