Our patient, an 83-year-old man, suddenly experienced acute lumbago and was prescribed bed rest. Later, pneumonia was diagnosed, even though he had no predisposing illness, and endophthalmitis developed in both eyes. Cultures of anterior chamber and vitreous specimens were positive for group B streptococcus. Treatment with systemic antibiotics, to which this bacteria is sensitive, was begun and...

Endogenous endophthalmitis is a rare but feared infectious ocular complication of injection drug use (IDU). The recent opioid epidemic in the United States threatens to increase the incidence of this disease. We report the first case of endogenous endophthalmitis in the United States caused by the emerging fungal pathogen Rhodotorula in an injection drug user which led to no light perception vi...

Purpose To report the clinical features organisms and treatment outcomes in patients with endophthalmitis after penetrating keratoplasty (PK). Methods Retrospective noncomparative case series. Results Eleven eyes of 11 patients with culture positive endophthalmitis after PK were included. The time to diagnosis of endophthalmitis from last PK was less than 1 week in 3/11 (27%), between 1 and...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency, risk factors, and visual outcome of post traumatic endophthalmitis in children. METHODS The study was conducted on patients less than fifteen years age, presenting with penetrating ocular injuries and associated with endophthalmitis. Anterior segment slit lamp examination and if possible posterior segment slit lamp examination with 90 D fundoscopes was pe...

BACKGROUND Endophthalmitis is one of the most important complications after cataract surgery and in case event can cause many symptoms, such as severe decrease in eyesight and/or even the loss of vision. Employing methods to reduce this problem is very important. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of intracameral cefuroxime after cataract surgery on corneal endothelial cell counts...

INTRODUCTION The causative organism and treatment outcomes of post operative endophthalmitis may vary depending on several factors. OBJECTIVE To find out the causative organisms and visual outcome after an outbreak of post-operative endophthalmitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS An interventional prospective series of cases of clinically suspected endophthalmitis was studied. Eleven patients who pr...

PURPOSE To investigate the incidence of adverse reactions after corneal transplantation, reported to the Eye Bank Association of America. METHODS Incidence of adverse reactions from January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2014, was analyzed. RESULTS Of the 354,930 transplants performed in the United States, adverse reactions were reported in 494 cases (0.139%). Primary graft failure (PGF) predomin...

PURPOSE To report on the incidence, diagnostic technique, and microbiological features of endophthalmitis at a university-setting in Brazil. METHODS All cases of presumed postoperative endophthalmitis from 2002 to 2008 at a teaching-hospital were included. Main data assessed were: number of cataract surgeries performed, incidence of endophthalmitis, microbiological outcome (aqueous and/or vit...

Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is a potential cause of bacterial endophthalmitis in humans that can result in ocular morbidity. We sought to identify pneumococcal genes that are differentially expressed during growth in the vitreous humor of the eye in an experimental endophthalmitis model. Microarray analysis was used to identify genes that were differentially expressed when pneumococ...