- Covers diverse types of endophthalmitis
- Describes clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment
- Written by acknowledged experts with the clinician in mind
This book describes the clinical presentations, diagnostic techniques, microbial pathogens, and antibiotic therapies for various types of endophthalmitis. Each chapter is written by experts in the field with the practicing clinician in mind. Endophthalmitis covers all of the above-mentioned settings and provides the practitioner with the latest guidelines for diagnosing and treating this vision-threatening infection.
Endophthalmitis is one of the most devastating types of eye infections, and most often occurs after eye surgery, an intravitreal injection, or ocular trauma. Endophthalmitis may also occur in eyes with severe keratitis, a glaucoma filtering bleb, or an indwelling ocular device such as a keratoprosthesis, or it may result from spread of organisms to the eye during bacteremia and fungemia.
The diagnosis of endophthalmitis may be readily apparent, as in most cases of acute endophthalmitis, or less obvious, as in many cases of subacute or chronic endophthalmitis. In all cases, timely diagnosis and appropriate therapy influence visual outcome.
Table of ContentsEndophthalmitis: An Overview.- The Pathogenesis of Bacterial Endophthalmitis.- Microbiologic Diagnosis in Endophthalmitis.- The Molecular Diagnosis of Endophthalmitis.- Acute-onset Postoperative Endophthalmitis.- Chronic Endophthalmitis Masquerading as Uveitis.- Endophthalmitis after Intravitreal Injection.- Bleb-Related Endophthalmitis.- Post-Traumatic Endophthalmitis.- Endogenous Endophthalmitis.- Exogenous Fungal Endophthalmitis.- Device-Related Endophthalmitis.- Endophthalmitis in Immunocompromised and Diabetic Patients.- Antibiotic Resistance in Endophthalmitis Pathogens.- Preventing Endophthalmitis
