Hiroto Ishikawa, Kazutaka Uchida, Yoshio Takesue, Junya Mori, Takamasa Kinoshita, Shohei Morikawa, Fumiki Okamoto, Tomoko Sawada, Masahito Ohji, Takayuki Kanda, Masaru Takeuchi, Akiko Miki, Sentaro Kusuhara, Tetsuo Ueda, Nahoko Ogata, Masahiko Sugimoto, Mineo Kondo, Shigeo Yoshida, Tadahiko Ogata, Kazuhiro Kimura, Yoshinori Mitamura, Tatsuya Jujo, Hitoshi Takagi, Hiroto Terasaki, Taiji Sakamoto, Takaaki Sugisawa, Yuki Komuku, Fumi Gomi
Bacterial endophthalmitis is an intraocular infection that causes rapid vison loss. Pathogens can infect the intraocular space directly (exogenous endophthalmitis (ExE)) or indirectly (endogenous endophthalmitis (EnE)). To identify predictive factors for the visual prognosis of Japanese patients with bacterial endophthalmitis, we retrospectively examined the bacterial endophthalmitis characteristics of 314 Japanese patients and performed statistics using these clinical data. Older patients, with significantly more severe clinical symptoms, were prevalent in the ExE group compared with the EnE group...
March 24, 2021: Pathogens