Acute bacterial endophthalmitis is a vision-threatening condition and must be managed as an emergency. Most cases of endophthalmitis are exogenous, resulting from organism inoculation from the outside either via a trauma, eye surgery or as an extension of corneal infections. The clinical outcome of bacterial endophthalmitis depends on the virulence of the infecting organism and the time taken for initiating the therapy. This article enlists the management strategies for bacterial endophthalmitis. Bacterial endophthalmitis is divided into six categories.
We will now see the management of those one by one. Acute post-cataract endophthalmitis: It is the most common form of endophthalmitis and is almost always bacterial occurring within six weeks of cataract surgery. The possible mechanism of infection is through the anterior chamber which is usually the site of cataract surgery. If there…
