Ophthalmitis in meningococcal disease
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G Mahdi1, M Tutton, G Evans-Jones
1Department of Paediatrics, Countess of Chester Hospital.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|May 1, 1988
Abstract:
We report an infant with meningococcal septicaemia and meningitis who had panophthalmitis at presentation that was unresponsive to standard systemic antibiotic treatment but which responded to topical steroid and mydriatic treatment. The pathogenesis may have been immune mediated.