Solve exciting clinical cases specific to your field of interest via Docplexus' clinical case challenge . In today's ‘Pediatric Case Challenge’ , join your fellow doctors to discuss and answer this interesting question. A 2-month-old infant was presented for an ocular infection in the right eye (RE).
Records showed that the newborn was hospitalized for severe neonatal sepsis, respiratory distress, and eyes opalescence after delivery—a clinical diagnosis of endogen endophthalmitis. Serial microbiological cultures from blood and ocular swabs were performed, and several syndromic antimicrobial treatments were used without improvement of ocular infection, including some intraocular antimicrobial injections. The treating medical team decided to perform the RE-vitrectomy with a microbiological sampling of vitreous fluid (VF) because of the non-improvement of RE infection and the beginning…
