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Bacterial Endophthalmitis

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Bacterial endophthalmitis is an inflammatory reaction of the intraocular fluids and tissues caused by microbial organisms. Bacteria may gain entry into the eye from a corneal or bleb infection, post surgery, from injection or trauma, or hematogenously. Prompt treatment, with intravitreal injection and subsequent vitrectomy (if required), is crucial to maintaining vision. Systems review is crucial to finding common sources of hematogenous spread.

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  1. Save Sight Institute, Sydney Eye Hospital, GPO Box 4337, 2001, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Sophia L. Zagora, Alex P. Hunyor & Peter J. McCluskey

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  1. Advanced Eye Center, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

    Vishali Gupta

  2. Ophthalmology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Quan Dong Nguyen

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University, Paris, France

    Phuc LeHoang

  4. University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Carl P Herbort Jr.

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Zagora, S.L., Hunyor, A.P., McCluskey, P.J. (2016). Bacterial Endophthalmitis. In: Gupta, V., Nguyen, Q., LeHoang, P., Herbort Jr., C. (eds) The Uveitis Atlas. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2506-5_33-1

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