ABSTRACT

The clinical course and treatment of a case with fungal endophthalmitis is described. Visual acuity of a seventy-one year-old female, having underwent previously an intravitreal steroid injection for uveitis and subsequently an intravitreal amphotericin-B injection for candida endophthalmitis in another institute, was no light perception in the right eye and 0.16 and in the left eye. Fundus examination revealed significant vitritis and snowball in the left eye. Vitrectomy was not performed due to instabilitiy of systemic state. Ocular findings in the left eye regressed with systemic fluconazole and amphotericin-B treatment and visual acuity increased to 0.5 together with the disappearance of vitritis. In the presence of endogenous candida endophthalmitis, satisfactory outcomes may be obtained by systemic antifungal therapy even in cases of which vitrectomy could not be performed.