Bilateral Staphylococcus Epidermidis Endophthalmitis After Cataract Extraction.

Kim, Hong Bok; Oh, Jung Hyub

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1977;18(4):299-302.
Published online April 1, 1977.

Bilateral Staphylococcus Epidermidis Endophthalmitis After Cataract Extraction.

Hong Bok Kim, Jung Hyub Oh

Department of Ophthalmology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

양안백내장 수술후 발생한 Staphylococcus Epidermidis 안구내염

김홍복 , 오중협 ( Hong Bok Kim , Jung Hyub Oh )

Abstract

Postoperative endopthalmitis is one of the most serious complication of intraocular surgery. It has rarely been treated sucessfully. The high incidence of therapeutic failure in bacterial endophthalmitis results in many blind eyes and enucleations. Many species of bacteria may produce endophthalmitis. Staphylococcus aureus has long been generally accepted as the most common causative organism of bacteral endophthalmitis, but Staphylococcus epidermidis hed been known as non-pathogenic organism until Valenton et al (1973) reported two cases of Staphylococcus epidermidis endophthalmitis following lens extraction. In 42 year old Korean woman, bilateral endopthalmitis following bilateral cataract surgery were caused by Staphylococcus epidermidis which was identified by smear and culture of the anterior chamber aspirates.