ENDOPHTHALMITIS AFTER ROUTINE INTRAOCULAR SURGERY IN AN ASPLENIC PATIENT

Authors
FULLER JR CASSWELL AG
Citation
Jr. Fuller et Ag. Casswell, ENDOPHTHALMITIS AFTER ROUTINE INTRAOCULAR SURGERY IN AN ASPLENIC PATIENT, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 88(8), 1995, pp. 475-476
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
01410768
Volume
88
Issue
8
Year of publication
1995
Pages
475 - 476
Database
ISI
SICI code
0141-0768(1995)88:8<475:EARISI>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
A 72-year-old asplenic man developed an acute early pneumococcal endop hthalmitis after a routine endocapsular cataract extraction with poor final visual outcome. It is recognized that splenectomy increases the risk and severity of pneumococcal infections. Our patient had not rece ived pneumococcal vaccination or been prescribed prophylactic antibiot ics since his splenectomy or at the time of surgery. Failure of these measures to occur may have affected visual outome.