Post-traumatic endophthalmitis after penetrating eye injuries. Risk factors, microbiological diagnosis and functional outcome.
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1998Author
Schmidseder, E
Miño de Kaspar, H
Klauss, V
Kampik, A
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BACKGROUND:
Endophthalmitis associated with penetrating injury represents a distinct kind of intraocular infection. The preceding trauma, infective agents and inflammatory changes determine the functional outcome.
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
In a retrospective study, 18 patients with endophthalmitis were investigated and compared to a control group of 54 patients with penetrating ocular trauma. A number of clinical variables were evaluated for association with an increased risk of endophthalmitis.
RESULTS:
Risk factors found to be significant were: (1) a purely corneal wound, (2) surgical primary repair more than 24 h after injury and (3) initiation of intravenous antibiotic therapy later than 24 h after trauma. A two-fold increased relative risk was related to the presence of an intraocular foreign body, lens injury and a wound length less than 5 mm. Direct inoculation of surgical specimens and immediate microbiological processing succeeded in the presumptive identification of infective agents with preliminary therapeutic recommendations in 72% of the patients.
CONCLUSIONS:
In "risk eyes" particular attention should be paid to prophylaxis and signs of infection
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Ophthalmologe. 1998 Mar;95(3):153-7Publisher
Augenklinik, Klinikum Innenstadt der LMU München. College of Health Sciences
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