Almeida Luciana Negrão Frota de, Canêdo Miguel Gustavo Rosa da Rocha, Almeida Rafael Negrão Frota de, Almeida Sobrinho Edmundo Frota de, Nehemy Márcio Bittar
Clínica de Olhos do Pará, e Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG.
Arq Bras Oftalmol. 2005 Nov-Dec;68(6):837-40. doi: 10.1590/s0004-27492005000600023.
The authors report a case of a patient who underwent cataract surgery with implantation of a posterior chamber intraocular lens and presented endophthalmitis on the second postoperative day. She was treated with intravitreal injection of amikacin, vancomycin and dexamethasone. After resolution of the infection the patient presented macular infarction and important loss of visual acuity due to amikacin toxicity.