Two Cases of Endogenous Endophthalmitis.

Lee, Sang Mee; Lee, Soo Hyung; Choi, Yul Je; Kim, In Taek

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1997;38(11):2064-2070.
Published online November 1, 1997.

Two Cases of Endogenous Endophthalmitis.

Sang Mee Lee, Soo Hyung Lee, Yul Je Choi, In Taek Kim

¹Department of Ophthalmology, Dongkang Hospital, Ulsan, Korea.
²Department of Ophthalmology, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Taegu, Korea.

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이상미(Sang Mee Lee),이수형(Soo Hyung Lee),최율제(Yul Je Choi),김인택(In taek Kim)

Abstract

Bacterial endophthalmitis remains an uncommon, but devastating complication of ocular surgery, trauma, and systemic infection. Most cases develop from an exegenous source and are introduced at the time of ocular surgery or penetrating trauma to the eye. Hematogenous spread of bacterial infection to the eye may also result in bacterial endophthalmitis. But, endogenous endophthalmitis caused by gram-negative bacteria in debilitated or immunocompromised patients and drug abusers has become well recognized in recent years. We report cases of endogenous Klebsiella pneumoniae endophthalmitis associatied with sepsis in a poor controlled diabetic patient and Streptocpccus pyogenes endophthalamitis associated with transurethral laser-induced prostatectomy of benign prostatic hypertrophy in a pneumonia patient.

Key Words: Endogenous endophthalmitis;Klebsiella pneumoniae;Streptococcus pyogenes