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Case report on a 59-year-old woman who was affected by a Candida septicaemia after several abdominal interventions. After therapy with amphotericin B and 5-flurocytosine the disappearance of a central retinal metastasis is documented. Beside these drugs, clotrimazole, miconazole, econazole, and some combinations with amphotericin B are more recent possibilities.
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Anfotericina B/uso terapêutico , Candidíase/tratamento farmacológico , Citosina/análogos & derivados , Endoftalmite/tratamento farmacológico , Flucitosina/uso terapêutico , Sepse/tratamento farmacológico , Quimioterapia Combinada , Feminino , Humanos , Imidazóis/uso terapêuticoRESUMO
The use of computed tomography (CT) simplifies neuroradiological investigations. A CT helped to confirm the diagnosis of an occipital vascular leasion in two cases of bilateral blindness.
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Cegueira/etiologia , Hemorragia Cerebral/diagnóstico por imagem , Infarto Cerebral/diagnóstico por imagem , Idoso , Cegueira/diagnóstico , Hemorragia Cerebral/complicações , Infarto Cerebral/complicações , Hematoma/complicações , Hematoma/diagnóstico por imagem , Hemianopsia/diagnóstico , Hemianopsia/etiologia , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X , Campos VisuaisRESUMO
Blood-circulatory disorders and their end results at the fundus of the eye must always draw our attention to a possible Arteriitis temporalis Horton, even if there are no general symptoms, when the clinical picture disguises the vascular disease, or even when an important symptom of the disease, such as the accelerated basal sedimentation rate, is missing.