Incidence, clinical features, causative organisms, and visual outcomes of delayed-onset pseudophakic endophthalmitis

European Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 804-811

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

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING KHALED EYE SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Delayed onset endophthalmitis; Pseudophakia

Indexed keywords

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MYCOSIS; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMICROBIAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PSEUDOPHAKIA; PSEUDOPHAKIC ENDOPHTHALMITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; CATARACT EXTRACTION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSEUDOPHAKIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 70549087864     PISSN: 11206721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/112067210901900519     Document Type: Article

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