Acute-onset nosocomial endophthalmitis after cataract surgery. Incidence, clinical features, causative organisms, and visual outcomes

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 643-649

  Al Mezaine, Hani S ^a   Kangave, Dustan ^a   Al Assiri, Abdullah ^a   Al Rajhi, Ali A ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA REFLEX; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SAUDI ARABIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CROSS INFECTION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 62649084532     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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