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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease endophthalmitis
Symptom C0021311|infections
Sentences 5
PubMedID- 23758694 The purpose of the current study is to describe a consecutive series of patients with delayed-onset endophthalmitis associated with corneal suture infections and to report the associated microbiology, risk factors, and treatment outcomes in these patients.
PubMedID- 21750627 Other manifestations include skin lesions in the setting of disseminated infection (such as fusarium species, acremonium species, aspergillus species, and zygomycetes), ocular involvement (endophthalmitis with blindness), osteoarticular infections, and uncommonly, gastrointestinal involvement.
PubMedID- 20390032 For intravitreal antibiotic application in bacterial infections, as with exogenous endophthalmitis treatment, vancomycin (1.0 mg/0.1 ml) for gram-positive coverage or in combination with the β-lactam antibiotic ceftazidime (2.25 mg/0.1 ml) or amikacin (400 μg/0.1 ml) is recommended for gram-negative coverage.
PubMedID- 25486541 Among patients with hematogenous infections, odds of endogenous endophthalmitis were higher for children and middle-aged patients, and for patients with endocarditis, bacterial meningitis, lymphoma/leukemia, hiv/aids, internal organ abscess, diabetes with ophthalmic manifestations, skin cellulitis/abscess, pyogenic arthritis, tuberculosis, longer hospital stays, and/or icu/nicu admission.
PubMedID- 23091485 Localised infections without fungemia including endophthalmitis, onychomycosis, meningitis, prosthetic joint infections, and peritonitis (usually associated with continuous peritoneal dialysis) have been reported in immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients.

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