purpose: to evaluate the effect of preoperative eyelash trimming on periocular bacterial flora. methods: one hundred patients divided into two groups. fifty cases (group 1) had eyelash trimming prior to phacoemulsification and other fifty patients (group 2) did not. none of the study participants had been diagnosed as having an active ocular infection prior to surgery. patients taking topical a...

PURPOSE To report the incidence of postoperative endophthalmitis at a high-volume eye hospital in southern India using a modified cost-effective sterilization protocol. SETTING Aravind Eye Hospital and Post Graduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Pondicherry, India. METHODS In this retrospective observational series at a single eye hospital, records of patients who had cataract surgery using a...

BACKGROUND To evaluate results after seven years using prophylactic intracameral cefazolin for the prevention of endophthalmitis in cataract surgery. METHODS A prospective, observational study of all patients submitted to cataract surgery over the period January 1996 to December 2009. All cases of postoperative endophthalmitis over that period were reviewed. The patients were classified in tw...

PURPOSE Intracameral injection is an effective method for preventing infection, but no controlled study has been published in the United States. DESIGN We conducted an observational, longitudinal cohort study to examine the effect of topical and injected antibiotics on risk of endophthalmitis. PARTICIPANTS We identified 315 246 eligible cataract procedures in 204 515 members of Kaiser Perma...

INSPIRED by the findings of the ESCRS endophthalmitis study, a symposium at the XXIV Congress of the ESCRS in London addressed the topic of endophthalmitis following cataract surgery.The Symposium was chaired by Ulf Stenevi and Jose Güell. Presenters provided updates on the current knowledge in the aetiology, diagnosis and treatment of endophthalmitis, and also provided suggestions on how the c...

OBJECTIVE To determine how donor health status affects the risk of infection after corneal transplant. METHODS An adverse reaction surveillance registry was used to conduct a matched case-control study among transplanted donor corneas from January 1, 1994, to December 31, 2003. Cases comprised 162 reports of endophthalmitis after penetrating keratoplasty including 121 with microbial recovery,...

PURPOSE Wall teichoic acids (WTAs) are major polyanionic polymer components of the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. However, little is known about their role at the host-pathogen interface, especially in endophthalmitis. This study was designed to investigate the extent to which WTAs contribute to the pathogenicity of S. aureus in models of endophthalmitis and to determine whether there woul...

PURPOSE To describe the presence of secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI), a cationic peptide with antimicrobial and antiprotease activity, in the innate ocular immune reaction in a rat model of Staphylococcus aureus endophthalmitis. METHODS Seventy-five female Lewis rats were divided into three groups: the endophthalmitis group received an intravitreal injection of 65 colony-forming ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the annual incidence of endophthalmitis after cataract surgery from January 1, 1996, through December 31, 2005, in Quebec, Canada. METHODS Deidentified data were obtained from an outpatient physician billing database (Quebec State Control for Health Insurance [RAMQ]) with regard to all cataract surgical procedures performed from January 1, 1996, through December 31, 2005...

BACKGROUND To characterize the causative pathogens and the visual outcomes among patients with endophthalmitis at a large referral center in northeastern Thailand. METHODS All cases of infectious endophthalmitis treated between 1983 and 2007 were reviewed retrospectively. The patient data - including age, sex, history of ocular injuries, previous treatment and duration of the symptoms - were ...