Graph or image title Endophthalmitis is a rare, but devastating outcome after intraocular surgery, trauma, systemic or local infection. It is characterized by inflammation involving the vitreous cavity and the anterior chamber of the eye. Once suspected, patients are subjected to ocular tissue biopsies, with microbial cultures, antibiotics delivered in multiple routes, and sometimes surgery to ...

Introduction Endogenous Endophthalmitis is a rare ocular infection but with poor visual prognosis for most patients. Its frequent etiology Klebsiella spp., associated hepatic abscesses and less frequently perirenal abscesses. Case presentation We present 61-year-old woman history of poorly controlled diabetes mellitus 2 that consulted several times acute pyelonephritis torpid evolution, endogen...

purpose: to assess the relative frequencies of etiologies leading to eye removal in patients who referred to feiz hospital, isfahan, between 2011 and 2014. methods: this retrospective study was conducted on patients who underwent eye removal at feiz hospital. age, sex, eye laterality, underlying etiology, visual acuity, and surgical technique (enucleation, evisceration, or exenteration) were re...

Acinetobacter baumannii is most often responsible for hospital-acquired infections and is occasionally associated with community-acquired infections. We report two cases of A. baumannii endophthalmitis, one with endogenous endophthalmitis and the other with postkeratoplasty endophthalmitis. Although endophthalmitis is rare, ophthalmologists should be alert to the possibility of patients having ...

Endogenous endophthalmitis accounts for 2% to 8% of cases of endophthalmitis. Immunocompromised state and intravenous drug use are the 2 most common causes of endogenous endophthalmitis due to molds fungi. Aspergillus, Fusarium, and Scedosporium are the common organisms in mold endophthalmitis. We report a case of Fusarium endophthalmitis in a patient with uncontrolled diabetes. While diabetes ...