Bacterial Contamination of Anterior Chamber Fluid Following Non-complicated Cataract Surgery
| Autor: | Manuel Díaz-Llopis, José L. Menezo, Antonio M. Duch-Samper, Susana Checa, Mercedes Hurtado-Sarrió, Amparo Navea |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Conjunctiva business.industry Aqueous humour medicine.medical_treatment Intraocular lens Phacoemulsification Ulls Cirurgia Contamination Cataract surgery medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease eye diseases Surgery Ophthalmology medicine.anatomical_structure Endophthalmitis medicine sense organs business Staphylococcus |
| Zdroj: | Menezo, Jose Luis Duch Samper, Antonio Miguel Hurtado Sarrió, Mercedes Checa, Susana Navea, Amparo Díaz Llopis, Manuel 1993 Bacterial contamination of anterior chamber fluid following non-complicated cataratact surgery EUROPEAN JOURNAL IMPLANT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY 5 4 267 271 RODERIC. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat de Valéncia instname |
| ISSN: | 0955-3681 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0955-3681(13)80171-2 |
| Popis: | Objective: To study the anterior chamber contamination during non-complicated cataract surgery and its relationship with normal conjuctival organisms. Setting: Ophthalmology Department, La Fe Hospital, University of Valencia. Patients: Forty patients who had undergone cataract extraction using either ECCE, phacoemulsification or nucleus fracture methods. Results: Positive cultures of aqueous humour were obtained in 32.5% of cases. The most commonly isolated organism was Staphylococcus coagulase-negative. Only in 7.7% of cases was the microorganism found in the conjunctiva the same as that found in the anterior chamber. The inoculum size ranged between 20 and 160 colonies/ml. One of the cases studied developed endophthalmitis 36 hours after surgery. Conclusions: The conjunctiva could not be the main source of anterior chamber contamination during surgery, although it would be capable of contributing a small number of inocula of organisms without causing any complications. |
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