A Case of Pantoea Endophthalmitis.
10.3341/kjo.2010.24.5.318
- Author:
Na Eun LEE
1
;
In Young CHUNG
;
Jong Moon PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju, Korea. parkjm@gnu.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Endophthalmitis;
Pantoea species
- MeSH:
Anti-Infective Agents/administration & dosage;
Diagnosis, Differential;
Endophthalmitis/diagnosis/*microbiology/therapy;
Enterobacteriaceae Infections/diagnosis/*microbiology/therapy;
Humans;
Lens Implantation, Intraocular;
Male;
Middle Aged;
Pantoea/*isolation & purification;
Republic of Korea
- From:Korean Journal of Ophthalmology
2010;24(5):318-321
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
A previously healthy 50-year-old man was transferred to our hospital for evaluation of acute inflammation in his right eye after ocular trauma while using a grass mower. Slit lamp examination showed 1 mm-length full thickness corneal laceration without leakage, 4+ cells and inflammatory membrane in the anterior chamber, 10% hypopyon, posterior synechiae formation, and cataract change. Upon orbital computerized tomography, a metallic intraocular foreign body in the lens was indentified. Vitrectomy, phacoemulsification, foreign body removal, anterior chamber irrigation, and intravitreal antibiotics injections of vancomycin and ceftazidime were performed. In a culture of humor from the anterior chamber grew Pantoea species. More procedures were performed, including intravitreal antibiotics injection of ceftazidime. Upon administering a course of intravenous ceftazidime, fortified ceftazidime and moxifloxacin eye drops, and oral prednisolone, the patient improved.
