Article Text

Download PDFPDF
The firework display of fungal endogenous endophthalmitis
  1. G McGowan,
  2. D Lockington,
  3. F Imrie
  1. Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr David Lockington, ST4 Ophthalmology, Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology, Gartnavel General Hospital, 1053 Great Western Road, Glasgow G12 0YN, UK; davidlockington{at}hotmail.com

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Request Permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

A 38-year-old intravenous drug user presented to eye casualty with a 2-day history of central visual loss and distortion in his left eye. Snellen visual acuity in the right eye was 6/9 and in the left eye 1/60. Fundal examination revealed localised retinal haemorrhages and white subretinal infiltrates at the left macula suggestive of Candida retinitis (figure 1A). Our patient admitted to using lemon juice to dilute his heroin before injection. Lemon juice is well known to be a source of Candida endophthalmitis.1–3 Fungal …

View Full Text

Footnotes

  • Competing interests None.

  • Patient consent Obtained.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.