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Age and Ageing 2006 35(1):89-91; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj006
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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

Charlie Wilkinson, Ed Richfield and Kate Rosenberg

The Department of Elderly Care, Beckett Wing, St James’s University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK

Address correspondence to: C. Wilkinson. Email: cpwilkinsonuk{at}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.

Keywords: older people, endogenous endophthalmitis, urinary tract infection, elderly

Received May 28, 2005; accepted in revised form August 14, 2005.


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