Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Jan 2014)
Rhodotorula mucilaginosa Keratitis: A rare fungus from Eastern India
- Suman Saha,
- Jayangshu Sengupta,
- Debapriya Chatterjee,
- Debdulal Banerjee
Affiliations
- Suman Saha
- Jayangshu Sengupta
- Debapriya Chatterjee
- Debdulal Banerjee
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.111133
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 62,
no. 3
pp. 341 – 344
Abstract
Rhodotorula mucilaginosa rarely cause keratitis in immunocompromised individuals. A 30 year old male with history of minor trauma presented with cotton wool like stromal infiltration and hypopyon in left eye. Microbiological examination of corneal scraping showed fungal hyphae and yeast cells in direct smear. Molecular identification of the organism was performed which showed 100% homology with Rhodotorula mucilaginosa. Management of these cases is difficult often necessitating surgical procedures. However further reports are necessary to understand the disease and establish a treatment protocol.
Keywords
- Clinical profile
- Indian population
- optic neuritis treatment trial
- optic neuritis
- Decompression of the orbit
- diplopia
- orbit
- thyroid exophthalmos
- thyroid ophthalmopathy
- Limbus incision
- subconjunctival incision
- sutureless manual small-incision cataract surgery
- wound construction
- Central retinal vein occlusion
- intravitrealbevacizumab
- intravitrealtriamcinolone acetonide
- macular edema
- Contrast sensitivity
- fixation
- microperimeter
- normative data
- retinal sensitivity
- Optical coherence tomography
- optic disc pit
- retinal detachment
- retinoschisis
- Homocysteine
- retinal vein occlusion
- visual impairment
- Diabetic macular edema
- monocyte chemoattractant protein-1
- soluble intracellular adhesion molecule-1
- vascular endothelial growth factor
- Compressive optic neuropathy
- humphrey visual field
- ischemic optic neuropathy
- multifocal visual evoked potential
- optic neuritis
- Age
- body mass index
- gender
- high density lipoprotein
- intraocular pressure
- lipid profiles
- total cholesterol
- triglyceride
- Capsular tension ring
- cataract
- intraocular lens
- myopia
- phacoemulsification
- posterior capsular opacification
- Ethnicity
- Indian
- macular thickness
- normative
- retinal nerve fiber layer
- Ocular torticollis
- superior oblique palsy
- surgery
- Barriers to follow-up
- pediatric cataract
- visual outcome
- Cataract
- intracameral mydriatic solution
- no preoperative mydriatic
- phacoemulsification
- Disc edema
- neem oil
- putamen
- toxin-induced encephalopathy
- Toxic Optic Neuropathy Secondary to Consumption of Neem Oil
- Absent thumb
- craniofacial defects
- limbal dermoid
- Nager syndrome
- Keratitis
- Rhodotorula sp
- Polymerase chain reaction
