Visual outcomes following the use of intravitreal steroids in the treatment of postoperative endophthalmitis

Ophthalmology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 486-489

  Shah, Gaurav K ^a   Stein, Joshua D ^a   Sharma, Sanjay ^a   Sivalingam, Arunan ^a   Benson, William E ^a   Regillo, Carl D ^a   Brown, Gary C ^a   Tasman, William ^a  

^a WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERRATIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMIKACIN; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VANCOMYCIN; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0034077253     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(99)00139-6     Document Type: Article

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