Do Patients With Candidemia Need an Ophthalmologic Examination?
Based on the available evidence and high risk of morbidity of eye involvement, continued ophthalmological screens seem prudent, but a definitive consensus was found to be challenging given a lack of outcome data. Additional investigations are warranted. Ophthalmology screenings have a higher sensitivity at >7 days from positive blood culture.
Authors
- Alice Lehman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4690-784X)
- Victoria Sattarova
- Susan Kline (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7954-2926)
- Serin Edwin Erayil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4912-4923)
- Sandra R. Montezuma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3731-8082)
- Katelyn Tessier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5513-583X)
Institutions
- University of Minnesota (US)
- University of Minnesota Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2024-11-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae663
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Drug-Induced Adverse Reactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.24
Funders
- University of Minnesota
- Norges Idrettshøgskole
- National Institutes of Health
- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
- National Cancer Institute
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences