Painful Leg and Loss of Vision in a Diabetic
S Patel, S Lightman, and WA Lynn
Department of Infectious Diseases, Ealing
Hospital; Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital,
City Road, London, UK.
Abstract
We report a case of a recurrent bacteraemia
due to Staphylococcus aureus with associated pyomyositis
and endophthalmitis in an insulin-dependent diabetic with chronic
liver disease secondary to alcohol abuse.
Key words
Staphyloccal, diabetes, endophthalmitis, pyomyositis,
immunocompromised
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