title: Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography of Patients With Late-Onset Tunnel Fungal Infections With Endophthalmitis After Cataract Surgery.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the use of anterior segment optical coherence tomography for characterization of late-onset tunnel fungal infections with endophthalmitis after cataract surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case reports.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A 77-year-old female (case 1) and a 76-year-old male (case 2) who received cataract surgery 15 and 1 year before their initial visits, respectively, were treated with topical steroids based on a diagnosis of uveitis, because they showed growing white lesions on the upper iris and beneath the cataract scleral wound. Irrigation of the anterior chambers and removal of the white lesions were performed in each case, and microbiological tests were positive for fungi (case 1, a positive culture of Fusarium sp.; case 2, a filamentous fungus present in a direct smear) in the white lesions. Both cases were diagnosed as late-onset fungal endophthalmitis after cataract surgery and were treated with topical and systemic antifungal agents. However, the white lesions reappeared, and the inflammation in the anterior chambers worsened. Anterior segment optical coherence tomography showed the spread of the white lesions into the scleral incisions from cataract surgery. Deroofing of the tunnel and sclerocorneal patch grafts were performed in both cases to treat the fungal tunnel infections. After these treatments, inflammation of both corneas and anterior chambers subsided.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Anterior segment optical coherence tomography can be used to identify late-onset fungal tunnel infections with endophthalmitis after cataract surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Ehime University, Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Japan.
authors.forename: Mami
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kitahata
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Naoko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Oka
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Toriyama
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohashi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000869:Anterior Eye Segment / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000935:Antifungal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D009877:Endophthalmitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy; D015821:Eye Infections, Fungal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D060585:Fusariosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy; D005670:Fusarium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures; D012590:Sclera; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000382:microbiology*; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence
chemical_list: D000935:Antifungal Agents