Endogenous Endophthalmitis Associated with Facial Cellulitis After a Tongue Bite

Endogenous Endophthalmitis Associated with Facial Cellulitis After a Tongue Bite

Endogenous endophthalmitis is an intraocular infection that results from hematogenous spread of organisms from a distant source of infection. Facial cellulitis is rarely reported as a focus of infection. We report a case of 51-year-old unconscious woman presenting with fever, facial swelling, and decreased visual acuity secondary to facial cellulitis, endogenous endophthalmitis and end-stage re...

endogenous klebsiella endophthalmitis associated with liver abscess

purpose: to report a case of endogenous klebsiella endophthalmitis associated with liver abscess in iran. case report: a 79 year old man was referred with chief complaint of left eye pain and visual loss. the patient had conjunctival hyperemia, corneal edema, hypopyon and severe vitreous cellular reaction in the left eye and yellowish conjunctival discoloration which was apparent in the right e...

Ascending cellulitis after an insect bite.

A recent case report in The Lancet shows that not all insect bites are harmless. Hortense Slevogt and colleagues from the Department of Medicine, Humboldt University in Berlin, report on a 51-year-old man who they admitted in September 1999. He arrived in hospital 5 days after developing a painful, purulent, nodular lesion with central necrosis and marked surrounding erythematous swelling on hi...

Cat Bite Cellulitis

Streptococcus anginosus-associated endogenous endophthalmitis mimicking fungal endophthalmitis.

Endogenous bacterial endophthalmitis (EE) is recognized as a major cause of visual loss with an associated mortality rate and is a diagnostic challenge in the early stages of the disease, with 16% to 63% of cases being initially misdiagnosed (T. L. Jackson, S. J. Eykyn, E. M. Graham, and M. R. Stanford, Surv. Ophthalmol. 48:403–423, 2003, and M. J. Greenwald, L. G. Wohl, and C. H. Sell, Surv. O...