Kuan-Jen Chen, Chi-Chun Lai, Hung-Chi Chen, Ying-Jiun Chong, Ming-Hui Sun, Yen-Po Chen, Nan-Kai Wang, Yih-Shiou Hwang, An-Ning Chao, Wei-Chi Wu, Ling Yeung, Chi-Chin Sun, Laura Liu, Yi-Hsing Chen, Hung-Da Chou
Enterococcus faecalis is known to cause severe acute endophthalmitis and often leads to poor visual outcomes in most ophthalmic infections. This retrospective study is to report the clinical settings, antimicrobial susceptibility patterns, and visual outcome of E. faecalis endophthalmitis at a tertiary referral institution in Taoyuan, Taiwan. E. faecalis endophthalmitis was diagnosed in 37 eyes of 37 patients. Post-cataract surgery was the most common cause ( n = 27, 73%), followed by bleb-associated ( n = 3, 8%), endogenous ( n = 2, 5%), corneal ulcer-related ( n = 2, 5%), post-vitrectomy ( n = 1, 3%), post-pterygium excision ( n = 1, 3%), and trauma ( n = 1, 3%)...
April 24, 2021: Microorganisms