Glaucoma-filtering bleb infections

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 91-94

  Mac, Ivan ^a   Soltau, Joern B ^a,b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFIBROTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYANOACRYLATE; FIBRIN GLUE; FLUOROURACIL; GENTAMICIN; MITOMYCIN; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLEBITIS; BLEPHARITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONTACT LENS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTION; GLAUCOMA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LONG TERM CARE; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIACEAE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TOPICAL TREATMENT; TRABECULOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRECTOMY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FIBROSIS; FILTERING SURGERY; FLUOROURACIL; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INFECTION; MITOMYCIN; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 0037564127     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00055735-200304000-00007     Document Type: Review

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