Data from the Swedish Macula Register showed steady growth of intravitreal injection volume over the last 7 years and a stable low incidence of endophthalmitis with a slight increase in 2014. “Between 2007 and 2014, we had 18,802 patients, 21,811 eyes, 304,401 visits and 145,747 treatments. Numbers have been growing steadily. Treatments were just over 2,000 in 2007 and nearly 36,000 in 2014,” Inger Westborg, MD, said at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.
The cases of endophthalmitis steadily grew proportionally to the number of injections. The highest number was in 2014, with 16 cases, 15 of which occurred in women. There were 46 registered cases of postop endophthalmitis between 2007 and 2014. “The overall incidence is 0.032% per intravitreal injection and 0.24% per patient, about the same as for cataract surgery, with an increase last year to 0.04%,”…
