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CASE REPORT
Candida glabrata as an aetiological factor of the fulminant course of panophthalmitis
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Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Heliodor Święcicki Clinical Hospital, University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
2
Central Microbiology Laboratory, H. Swiecicki Clinical Hospital, University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
3
Department of Genetics and Pharmaceutical Microbiology, University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
4
Department of Dermatology and Venereology, University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
Corresponding author
Joanna Bilska-Stokłosa
Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Heliodor Święcicki Clinical Hospital. Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland, ul. Przybyszewskiego 49, 60-355, Poznań
Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Heliodor Święcicki Clinical Hospital. Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland, ul. Przybyszewskiego 49, 60-355, Poznań
Ann Agric Environ Med. 2020;27(4):540-543
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ABSTRACT
Introduction:
The role of fungi in infections in immunocompromised patients is a growing problem in both diagnosis and treatment. Candida species are the most common cause of fungal, endogenous endophthalmitis and infections of the cornea.
Case study:
A patient was admitted to hospital due to acute inflammation of the tissue of the left orbit, 1.5 years after the corneal penetrating transplantation of the left eye with intracapsular extraction of lens and simultaneous anterior vitrectomy. The microbiological system identified: Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, and Candida glabrata in the patient.
Conclusions:
The factors conducive to fungal infections are: patient’s old age, immune disorders and diabetes, as well as the presence of a necrotic tissue or a foreign body. All these parameters were met in this case. Only antibiotic therapy and long-term antifungal therapy, together with surgical debridement of the site of the ongoing infection produces clinical effects in such severe cases.
The role of fungi in infections in immunocompromised patients is a growing problem in both diagnosis and treatment. Candida species are the most common cause of fungal, endogenous endophthalmitis and infections of the cornea.
Case study:
A patient was admitted to hospital due to acute inflammation of the tissue of the left orbit, 1.5 years after the corneal penetrating transplantation of the left eye with intracapsular extraction of lens and simultaneous anterior vitrectomy. The microbiological system identified: Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, and Candida glabrata in the patient.
Conclusions:
The factors conducive to fungal infections are: patient’s old age, immune disorders and diabetes, as well as the presence of a necrotic tissue or a foreign body. All these parameters were met in this case. Only antibiotic therapy and long-term antifungal therapy, together with surgical debridement of the site of the ongoing infection produces clinical effects in such severe cases.
Bilska-Stokłosa J, Hampelska K, Osmola K, Czajka J, Bogdanowicz-Gapińska D, Tomczak H. Candida glabrata as an aetiological factor of the
fulminant course of panophthalmitis. Ann Agric Environ Med. 2020; 27(4): 540–543. doi: 10.26444/aaem/122475
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