Bilateral Fulminating Endophthalmitis with Streptococcal Septicaemia.

Puerperal sepsis leading to bilateral fulminating purulent endophthalmitis with tenonitis.

Streptococcus suis type II (group R) as a cause of endophthalmitis.

A case is reported of a patient with bilateral endophthalmitis, meningitis, sensorineural deafness, labyrinthitis, and septicaemia due to Streptococcus suis type II (group R). The organism is known to produce epidemic meningitis, septicaemia, and purulent arthritis in piglets, but human infection is rare, and no other case reports of ocular infection are known. The organism was sensitive to pen...

Endophthalmitis following intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) injection: a comprehensive review

The purpose of this review is to report and summarize previously reported studies and assess many of the individual steps of the intravitreal injection procedure's possible effect on the prevention of endophthalmitis. The pooled endophthalmitis rate from 20 large retrospective case series of anti-VEGF injections was 144/510,396 (0.028%; 1/3,544). Injections may be performed in an office-based l...

An animal model of Fusarium solani endophthalmitis.

Infection with Fusarium solani was established by injecting spores into the anterior chambers of outbred Wistar rats. The disease produced was remarkably similar to that reported in man and progressed to a fulminating endophthalmitis. Attenuation of the disease could be accomplished by repeated animal passage of the isolate.

Fulminating chromobacterial septicaemia presenting as respiratory distress syndrome.

Respiratory distress syndrome occurs in a variety of clinical situations of which sepsis is one important precipitating factor. We have observed and successfully treated with high PEEP (positive end-expiratory pressure) a rare case of chromobacterial septicaemia complicated by an acute respiratory distress syndrome. We describe here the first reported case of a patient in this country surviving...