Record number:
446
Adverse Occurrence type:
MPHO Type:
Alerting signals, symptoms, evidence of occurrence:
Fulminating endophthalmitis with Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Demonstration of imputability or root cause:
Possible. Uncertain but suspicious. A 45-year-old man died of Hogdkin's disease complicated by peritonitis and possible septicemia. His corneas were used for transplant in a 26-year-old man with advanced keratoconus and a 42-year-old man with vascularized central leukoma of old herpetic keratitis. Both recipients developed a fulminating endophthalmitis with Pseudomonas aeruginosa but no donor infection documented.
Imputability grade:
1 Possible
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