Postoperative endophthalmitis after cataract surgery is more than 17% more likely in patients with diabetes, while posterior capsule rupture during surgery is more than three times as likely, ...

Use of a fluoroquinolone antibiotic after cataract surgery was associated with a reduced rate of endophthalmitis, according to a large study. “In contrast, endophthalmitis was more likely to ...

Source Reference: van Rooij J, et al "Prophylactic intracameral antibiotics and endophthalmitis after cataract surgery" JAMA Ophthalmol 2024; DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.1716.

Endophthalmitis remains a serious complication after cataract surgery, although prophylactic measures introduced in recent years have reduced the number of patients with this complication. Our two ...

We recently encountered a rare case of post-operative Ochrobactrum anthropi endophthalmitis potentially caused by percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTCA) prior to cataract surgery.O. anthropi ...

One possible case investigated in a complicated cataract surgery procedure returned with a negative culture. It was atypical in that it occurred more than five weeks after surgery. Visual outcome was ...

Source Reference: Bjerager J, et al "Outbreak of bilateral endophthalmitis after immediate sequential bilateral cataract surgery" JAMA Ophthalmol 2023; DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2023.4637. Share ...

Prevalence and susceptibility for isolates. The medical records of 59 patients (34 men and 25 women; median age 63.1 years) with acute bacterial endophthalmitis after cataract surgery from January ...

Endophthalmitis is one of the most severe complications after cataract surgery and is an urgent health matter. It occurs when microorganisms enter the eye and infect the fluids or tissues inside ...

There were 36 cases of endophthalmitis between 1993 to 1999, 62 cases between 2000 and 2010, and 17 between 2016 and 2022, with procedures numbering 27,114, 68,335, and 56,598 in those respective ...

By using a 5% sample of a Medicare claims database, 203,643 Medicare beneficiaries' claims were examined for three outcomes: retained lens fragments, endophthalmitis, and risk for primary open-angle ...

Abstract and Introduction Abstract. Background To evaluate results after seven years using prophylactic intracameral cefazolin for the prevention of endophthalmitis in cataract surgery. Methods A ...