Endophthalmitis from contaminated donor corneas following penetrating keratoplasty
| Autor: | James A. Cameron, Sobhi R. Antonios, Nadim R. Habash, John B. Cotter |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Male Adolescent Eye disease medicine.disease_cause Eye Banks Enterococcus faecalis Eye Infections Bacterial Microbiology Cornea Endophthalmitis medicine Humans Candida albicans Mycosis Aged Aged 80 and over biology Bacteria business.industry Fungi Eye bank Drug Resistance Microbial Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Tissue Donors Ophthalmology Staphylococcus aureus Gentamicin Female Gentamicins business Eye Infections Fungal Keratoplasty Penetrating medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960). 109(1) |
| ISSN: | 0003-9950 |
| Popis: | • We encountered six (0.2%) cases of endophthalmitis resulting from contaminated donor corneas between January 1983 and July 1990 following a total of 3000 consecutive penetrating keratoplasties. Causative organisms in the three cases of fungal endophthalmitis were Torulopsis glabrata, Candida albicans , and Aspergillus flavus ; the three cases of bacterial endophthalmitis were due to Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus , and Enterococcus faecalis . All organisms were resistant to gentamicin in the preservation media. A significantly higher incidence of endophthalmitis was noted in patients receiving corneas from a Sri Lankan eye bank (1.25%) than in those receiving US eye bank tissue (0.14%). Donor rim cultures are important to identify those patients at increased risk of developing endophthalmitis, enabling earlier diagnosis and more specific treatment should endophthalmitis occur. |
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