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An unfamiliar course of a familiar illness: a rare ophthalmic complication of urinary sepsis.

Wilkinson C, Richfield E, Rosenberg K

The Department of Elderly Care, Beckett Wing, St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK. cpwilkinsonuk@yahoo.co.uk

Uncommon complications may occur in the context of illnesses encountered frequently in later life. They may be difficult to both identify and manage in a drowsy, confused patient, particularly in the absence of collateral information. We present an unusual ocular complication in a patient with systemic sepsis from a urinary tract infection, an unquestionably common diagnosis in older patients admitted to hospital.

Published 20 December 2005 in Age Ageing, 35(1): 89-91.
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