[HTML][HTML] Endophthalmitis

ML Durand - Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2013 - Elsevier
Endophthalmitis means bacterial or fungal infection inside the eye involving the vitreous
and/or aqueous humors. Most cases are exogenous and occur after eye surgery, after …

Management of bacterial postoperative endophthalmitis and the role of vitrectomy

B Clarke, TH Williamson, G Gini, B Gupta - Survey of Ophthalmology, 2018 - Elsevier
Management of postoperative bacterial endophthalmitis was explored in the
Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study 37 in 1995, which has underpinned the core protocols in …

Genomics-based identification of microorganisms in human ocular body fluid

P Kirstahler, SS Bjerrum, A Friis-Møller, M la Cour… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Advances in genomics have the potential to revolutionize clinical diagnostics. Here, we
examine the microbiome of vitreous (intraocular body fluid) from patients who developed …

Infectious keratitis in 204 586 LASIK procedures

F Llovet, V de Rojas, E Interlandi, C Martín… - Ophthalmology, 2010 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To investigate the incidence, culture results, risk factors, and visual outcomes of
infectious keratitis after LASIK, and examine treatment strategies. DESIGN: Retrospective …

Twenty years of endophthalmitis: Incidence, aetiology and clinical outcome

A Malmin, H Syre, A Ushakova, TP Utheim… - Acta …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To review the incidence, aetiology and outcomes of endophthalmitis during a 20‐
year period in a Norwegian university hospital. Methods Single‐centre retrospective review …

[HTML][HTML] Detection and gram discrimination of bacterial pathogens from aqueous and vitreous humor using real-time PCR assays

PJM Bispo, GB de Melo… - … & visual science, 2011 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Purpose.: To develop and apply real-time PCR protocols to the detection and classification
of the Gram status of bacterial pathogens in aqueous and vitreous humor collected from …

Endophthalmitis: a bibliometric study and visualization analysis from 1993 to 2023

X Fu, W Du, L Huang, X Ren, D Chen - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Aims This study is designed to generalize and depict the research hotspots of
endophthalmitis through bibliometric methods and software and analyze the evolutive …

A pyrrhic victory: The PMN response to ocular bacterial infections

ET Livingston, MH Mursalin, MC Callegan - Microorganisms, 2019 - mdpi.com
Some tissues of the eye are susceptible to damage due to their exposure to the outside
environment and inability to regenerate. Immune privilege, although beneficial to the eye in …

Post photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) infectious keratitis; six-year experience of a tertiary eye hospital

M Soleimani, M Keykhaei, SA Tabatabaei, M Shahriari… - Eye, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Background/Objectives As an essential development in the new century, surface
ablation procedures have attracted increasing attention. There exists a concern regarding …

Comparison of methods for identifying causative bacterial microorganisms in presumed acute endophthalmitis: conventional culture, blood culture, and PCR

P Pongsachareonnont, W Honglertnapakul… - BMC Infectious …, 2017 - Springer
Background Identification of bacterial pathogens in endophthalmitis is important to inform
antibiotic selection and treatment decisions. Hemoculture bottles and polymerase chain …