Persistently Vitreous Culture-Positive Exogenous Fungal Endophthalmitis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To report the clinical settings, microbiological isolates, and best-corrected visual acuities (BCVA) of patients with persistently culture-positive exogenous fungal endophthlamitis.

Design

Retrospective consecutive case series.

Methods

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

Patient population

Sixteen eyes of 16 patients with at least 2 consecutive positive vitreous cultures between 1981 and 2015.

Interventions

Intravitreal antifungal injection, pars plana vitrectomy (PPV).

Main outcome measure

Clinical settings, microbiologic isolates, BCVA.

Results

The most common clinical settings were after cataract surgery (9/16, 56%), glaucoma surgery (4/16, 25%), and trauma (2/16, 13%). The most common single fungal isolate was Candida (4/16, 25%)

SUBMITTER: Leung EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5121022 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature