DOI: 10.1001/archopht.1984.01040030425016

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Posttraumatic Endophthalmitis

G. S. Brinton,Trexler M. Topping,R. A. Hyndiuk,T. M. Aaberg,F. H. Reeser,Gary W. Abrams

Endophthalmitis

Medicine

Visual acuity

1984

Nineteen consecutive cases of culture-proved posttraumatic endophthalmitis occurred. Over an eight-year period, 19 (7.4%) of 257 patients with penetrating trauma had endophthalmitis develop, and 19 (31.1%) of 61 cases of endophthalmitis were due to trauma. Eleven (10.7%) of 103 patients with intraocular foreign bodies had endophthalmitis develop. Final visual acuity was 20/200 or better in eight (42.1%) of 19 and 20/30 or better in five (26.3%) of 19 cases of posttraumatic endophthalmitis. Organisms cultured were similar to those in the other types of endophthalmitis, except that Bacillus species were seen only in posttraumatic endophthalmitis (five [26.3%] of 19). Virulent organisms or retinal breaks or detachments seen at the time of primary repair indicated poor prognoses.

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“Posttraumatic Endophthalmitis” is a paper by G. S. Brinton Trexler M. Topping R. A. Hyndiuk T. M. Aaberg F. H. Reeser Gary W. Abrams published in 1984. It has an Open Access status of “closed”. You can read and download a PDF Full Text of this paper here.