Do you routinely recommend IV systemic antibiotic therapy in additional to intravitreal antibiotic therapy for exogenous bacterial endophthalmitis?
Answer from: at Community Practice
Post-surgical (exogenous) endophthalmitis is an uncommon complication with the incidence ranging from 0.04%-0.3%, 0.019%- 0.54%, and 0.11% - 0.03% following cataract surgery, intravitreal injection, and vitrectomy, respectively (Soliman et al., PMID 32467482). Initial management of exogenous endopht...
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at Saint Francis Hospital Sufficiently uncommon (at least among non-ophthalm...
Sufficiently uncommon (at least among non-ophthalm...