Bilateral blindness following panophthalmitis in a case of bacterial endocarditis
Treister, G.; Rothkoff, L.; Yalon, M.; Thaler, M.; Kaplinsky, N.; Frankl, O.
Annals of Ophthalmology 14(7): 663-664
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-4886 PMID: 6751189 Document Number: 186801
Bilateral metastatic panophthalmitis developed in a 65-yr-old woman who suffered from bacterial endocarditis caused by hemolytic Streptococcus group A. Despite massive antibiotic treatment, she eventually had complete blindness and bilateral phthisis.
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