Disease relevance of Panophthalmitis

• Injection of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus produced a panophthalmitis in our systemically treated controls, whereas in the rabbits treated by intraocular injection, the course of the infection was significantly altered [1].
• Moxalactam at doses ranging from 1 g every 12 hr to 2 g every 8 hr was given to patients with serious infections of the respiratory (14) or urinary (13) tract, abdominal abscess (4), osteomyelitis (4), meningitis (5), soft-tissue phlegmon (3), malignant external otitis (2), peritonitis (1), and panophthalmitis (1) [2].

High impact information on Panophthalmitis

• A man with systemic lupus erythematosus receiving chronic steroid therapy presented with headache, fever and panophthalmitis [3].
• The failure of cyclosporin to inhibit granulomatous inflammation in acute Arthus-like panophthalmitis [4].
• Postmortem diagnosis of Fusarium panophthalmitis by the polymerase chain reaction [5].
• Suprachoroidal septic effusion leading to panophthalmitis following strabismus surgery [6].
• One patient with panophthalmitis was treated with intravenous amphotericin B [7].

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