Alteraciones oculares en el paciente crítico

Eye disorders in critically ill patients are not uncommon, many of them are not diagnosed or are considered as conditions usually experienced by patients in the Intensive Care Units. Fortunately most of them are benign, transient and self-limited; but some others might be the expression of serious systemic conditions and may have ominous outcomes if diagnosis and treatment are delayed or inappropriate. We report here a case of a patient who was hospitalized because of a cardiopulmonary event and who acutely developed eye surface injuries associated with visual loss in the context of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa bacteremia and that were managed under the presumed diagnosis of endogenous endopthalmitis.