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#idboardreview A pt wearing same contact lens for 3 months presents with cloudy vision, photophobia and increasingly exquisite pain in one eye not improved w/topical and oral abx and antivirals. dx? #idmeded #meded #idtwitter ImageImage
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#idboardreview 60 M sarcoidosis w/ 2wks x fever, unsteady gait, fluctuating arm weakness/dysarthria, horizontal diplopia. CSF 200wbc 90%lymph, shock on vanc,cefepime,amp, ampho, rapid inc brain edema➡️death. Diagnosis? #medEd #idmedEd #idtwitter
#Amebic meningoencephalitis caused by #acanthamoeba culbertsoni cdc.gov/parasites/acan…
#acanthamoeba rapidly progressive meningoencephalitis & uncontrollable cerebral edema, resulting in death from increased intracranial pressure w/in few days after presentation & no response to broad-spectrum abx, antiviral, antifungal, and immune-modulation therapies
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