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Staphylococcus epidermidis Endophthcilmitis
- Source :
- Ophthalmology. 89:354-360
- Publication Year :
- 1982
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1982.
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Abstract
- Staphylococcus epidermidis has been reported with increasing frequency as a cause of bacterial endophthalmitis. Over the past eight years 18 consecutive postsurgical cases have been treated by combined antibiotic-corticosteroid therapy without intravitreal antibiotics or vitrectomy. Fourteen (78%) achieved a final visual acuity of 20/50 or better. When these cases were added to similarly reported cases in the literature, 72% achieved this level of vision. By contrast, 42% of adequately documented cases in the literature treated by intravitreal antibiotics, and 42% treated additionally by vitrectomy, achieved a vision of 20/50 or better. S. epidermidis is an organism with a low order of virulence. The use of intravitreal antibiotics and vitrectomy do not appear to be necessary for effective treatment.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Visual acuity
biology
medicine.drug_class
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Intravitreal antibiotics
Vitrectomy
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Surgery
Ophthalmology
Pharmacotherapy
Endophthalmitis
Staphylococcus epidermidis
medicine
Corticosteroid
Effective treatment
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01616420
- Volume :
- 89
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ophthalmology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7f442c3a04cb0910cd1188b389218ef3