Clinical and Histopathologic Ocular Findings in Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Infection after Cardiothoracic Surgery

• Published in: Ophthalmology (Rochester, Minn.) Vol. 124; no. 2; pp. 178 - 188
• Main Authors: Zweifel, Sandrine A., Mihic-Probst, Daniela, Curcio, Christine A., Barthelmes, Daniel, Thielken, Andrea, Keller, Peter M., Hasse, Barbara, Böni, Christian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.02.2017
• Subjects: Aged; Cardiopulmonary Bypass; Chimera; Endocarditis, Bacterial - complications; Eye - microbiology; Eye Diseases - etiology; Eye Diseases - microbiology; Eye Diseases - pathology; Eye Diseases - physiopathology; Eye Infections, Bacterial - etiology; Eye Infections, Bacterial - microbiology; Female; Fluorescein Angiography; Humans; Immunohistochemistry; Male; Middle Aged; Mycobacterium - isolation & purification; Mycobacterium Infections - complications; Mycobacterium Infections - etiology; Ophthalmology; Postoperative Complications; Tomography, Optical Coherence; Visual Acuity; OCT; SD OCT; NTM; RPE; FAF; EDI; VA; ICG; PCR; optical coherence tomography; indocyanine green; visual acuity; spectral-domain optical coherence tomography; fundus autofluorescence; nontuberculous mycobacterium; enhanced depth imaging; retinal pigment epithelium; polymerase chain reaction

To investigate and characterize clinical and histopathologic ocular findings in patients with disseminated infection with Mycobacterium chimaera, a slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM), subsequent to cardiothoracic surgery. Observational case series. Five white patients (10 eyes). Analysi...