purpose: to investigate etiological factors of endophthalmitis in farabi eye hospital . methods: in a retrospective study, the clinical records of 223 patients admitted to the hospital with final diagnosis of endophthalmitis between march 2002 and march 2004 were reviewed. analyzed factors included: age, sex, clinical presentation, clinical course, microbiological data, treatment modality, visu...

purpose : the goal of this study was evaluation of the incidence rate of posttraumatic endophthalmitis, its clinical features and probable risk factors in repaired open globe injuries. methods : in this retrospective case series, surgical and medical records of 600 patients with open globe injury were reviewed. patients who underwent primary repair (as soon as possible) in khatam-al-anbia eye h...

PURPOSE To present the microbiologic spectrum and susceptibilities of isolates in posttraumatic endophthalmitis, and to provide a review of the literature. DESIGN Retrospective consecutive case series. METHODS A review of 1182 consecutive open globe injuries was performed, identifying 10 patients with culture-proven endophthalmitis. RESULTS Thirteen organisms were isolated from 10 eyes wi...

This study aimed to identify the microbial etiology of infectious endophthalmitis and to determine the antibacterial susceptibilities of bacterial isolates at an eye hospital in South China. A retrospective analysis was carried out on 330 patients with clinically diagnosed infectious endophthalmitis who underwent microbiological evaluation from January 2010 to December 2014. Of the 330 patients...

BACKGROUND Endophthalmitis is potentially devastating intraocular inflammation following eye trauma or surgery. We describe the visual outcomes and causative pathogens in acute bacterial postoperative and posttraumatic endophthalmitis treated with immediate pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with Vancomycin dissolved in the infusion fluid. METHODS Clinical records of consecutive 30 patients with pos...

Endophthalmitis is an infection of the anterior and posterior segments of the eye resulting from the introduction of microorganisms following a surgical procedure (postoperative), traumatic penetrating injury (posttraumatic), or metastasis from an infection of a distant site in the body (endogenous). Endophthalmitis can develop into panophthalmitis if the infectious agent invades the cornea and...

A rare case of Sphingomonas paucimobilis endophthalmitis secondary to a penetrating globe injury with a retained intraocular foreign body is presented. A 30-year-old man presented with severe pain following a penetrating left eye injury. Visual acuity (VA) was 6/120. Slit-lamp examination revealed perforation of the temporal cornea and iris, hypopyon, and a fibrinous membrane covering the pupil...

An 82-year-old man with dementia presented to his primary care physician with a chief complaint of left eye swelling for 2 days. He was prescribed ciprofloxacin ophthalmic drops. A few days later, his symptoms had not improved, and he presented to the emergency department at an outside hospital with ongoing eye pain. He had loss of vision in his left eye. He noted that he may have fallen approx...

Members of the genus Enterobacter are commensal organisms of the gastrointestinal tract and are considered pathogenic only for patients with lowered resistance to infection (e.g., chronic infection, cancer, or diabetes mellitus) or those with impaired immunity (congenital, acquired, or impaired immunity secondary to therapy). We report on four cases of endophthalmitis caused by Enterobacter clo...