Fungal Endophthalmitis

Endogenous endophthalmitis by <i>Candida glabrata</i>: An unusual complication of digestive surgery

“…Intravitreal therapy in fungal endophthalmitis relies on the use of intravitreal amphotericin B or intravitreal voriconazole. While both are effective against fungal endophthalmitis, intravitreal voriconazole is associated with a lower risk of retinal toxicity, has a wider spectrum, and is currently the drug of choice [6]. In our case, appropriate antifungal treatment led to good visual outcome.…”

“…In fact, negative blood cultures cannot exclude EFE because they are presumed to be in the setting of transient or intermittent fungemia [3]. Cultures of intraocular fluids aid in the diagnosis of patients with negative blood cultures but vitreous cultures are limited by low sensitivity [6]. In fact, for more accurate diagnosis, diagnostic vitrectomy is recommended in suspicious cases since diagnostic vitrectomy shows a higher positive culture rate [7].…”

“…According to [6], the main drawback of fluconazole is its lack of activity against some non-albicans Candida species including Candida glabrata. In such situations, voriconazole is the treatment of choice.…”

Symmetry‐Protected Quantum Adiabatic Evolution in Spontaneous Symmetry‐Breaking Transitions

“…In particular, our findings can be tested via the techniques in quantum annealing. Our first example can be realized by the quantum annealing of a single superconducting flux qubit by switching off the energy bias. Our second example can be implemented by the quantum annealing in a programmable D‐wave system from transverse field limit to Ising interaction limit in the absence of local fields.…”

“…Quantum adiabatic theorem (QAT) states that a slowly driven system from an initial eigenstate will stay close to the correspondingly instantaneous eigenstate of its Hamiltonian . The QAT is the theoretical basis for the Landau–Zener tunneling, the perturbative quantum field theory, the Berry phase, the topological Thouless pumping, and the quantum annealing . Moreover, the QAT has promising applications in quantum technologies such as quantum state engineering and quantum computing .…”