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Clin Case Rep 2021 Feb 4;9(2):707-710. Epub 2020 Dec 4.

Department of Respiratory Medicine Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Nagasaki Japan.

The treatment duration for candidemia with septic pulmonary embolism should be determined based on the clearance of fungus from the bloodstream and improvement of symptoms. The remaining lung nodules may not necessarily indicate persistent infection. Read More

Ann Palliat Med 2020 Oct 27. Epub 2020 Oct 27.

Department of Emergency Medicine, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

Background: Septic pulmonary embolism (SPE) is attracting more attention as a special pulmonary sign in severe infection. We aimed to describe the clinical and imaging features of Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumonia)-associated SPE in the emergency department. Read More

Medicine (Baltimore) 2020 Apr;99(16):e19869

Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Inha University College of Medicine, Jung-gu, Incheon, South Korea.

Introduction: Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess (KPLA) is often associated with accompanying metastatic complications such as septic pulmonary embolism, brain abscess, and endophthalmitis. Pleural empyema secondary to a KPLA is a very unusual finding, made even more rare with the presence of a hepatopleural fistula.

Patient Concerns: An 81-year-old woman presented with aggravated dyspnea. Read More

Curr Opin Ophthalmol 2020 May;31(3):167-173

VitreoRetinal Surgery, PA, USA.

Purpose Of Review: The present article reviews the most common and most serious vision-threatening and life-threatening complications of vitreoretinal surgery.

Recent Findings: Serious complications after vitreroretinal surgery are rare. Endophthalmitis for example has recently been estimated to occur in 0. Read More

BMJ Case Rep 2019 Dec 17;12(12). Epub 2019 Dec 17.

Clinical Physiology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia.

A 51-year-old diabetic man diagnosed with prostatic abscess underwent its drainage twice. Following surgery he developed fever and right-sided painless visual loss due to endophthalmitis. To rule out its endogenous source CT scan was done which showed multisystem aetiology and complications. Read More