Luong Preston M, Kalpakian Basilio, Jaeger Lawrence J, Lahey Timothy, Chapman Christopher B, Zegans Michael E
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA.
Section of Ophthalmology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene, Keene, NH, USA.
Case Rep Infect Dis. 2017;2017:9686353. doi: 10.1155/2017/9686353. Epub 2017 Apr 5.
Endogenous endophthalmitis is a rare but feared infectious ocular complication of injection drug use (IDU). The recent opioid epidemic in the United States threatens to increase the incidence of this disease. We report the first case of endogenous endophthalmitis in the United States caused by the emerging fungal pathogen in an injection drug user which led to no light perception vision (NLP). Worldwide experience with endogenous endophthalmitis is limited, but existing cases suggest infection by this particular fungal genus has a grim prognosis.
内源性眼内炎是注射吸毒（IDU）罕见但可怕的感染性眼部并发症。美国近期的阿片类药物流行可能会增加这种疾病的发病率。我们报告了美国首例由新兴真菌病原体引起的注射吸毒者内源性眼内炎病例，该病例导致无光感视力（NLP）。全球范围内关于内源性眼内炎的经验有限，但现有病例表明，由这种特定真菌属引起的感染预后不良。
