Clinical Characteristics of K. pneumoniae Related Endogenous Endophthalmitis in China
Xia Wang, Yu Song, Yicong Ji, Anming Chen, Shancheng Si · 2024
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Xia Wang, Yu Song, Yicong Ji, Anming Chen, and Shancheng Si report a two thousand twenty-four study of a severe eye infection caused by Klebsiella bacteria spreading from inside the body. Unlike post-surgery eye infections, this kind arrives through the bloodstream. Its warning pattern in China needed mapping.
Affected eyes were compared with surgery-related infection cases. Every body-spread patient had fever, and nearly all had liver abscesses. Half also had lung involvement. Blood protein levels ran low. Statistical checks singled out fever and low protein as independent markers. Doctors seeing such a pattern should suspect this dangerous route early.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xia Wang, Yu Song, Yicong Ji, Anming Chen, Shancheng Si |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |