Acute Bilateral Endophthalmitis Following Bilateral Intravitreal Bevacizumab (Avastin) Injection

The clinical presentation and management of two patients who presented with acute bilateral endophthalmitis following bilateral intravitreal bevacizumab injection. Both cases were diagnosed clinically and subsequent to a vitreous sample, intravitreal ceftazidime (2.25 mg/0.1ml) and vancomycin (1 mg/...

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Autores principales: Tabatabaii, Ali, Ahmadraji, Aliasghar, Khodabande, Alireza, Mansouri, Mohammadreza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3617537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23580860
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.106402
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author Tabatabaii, Ali
Ahmadraji, Aliasghar
Khodabande, Alireza
Mansouri, Mohammadreza
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description The clinical presentation and management of two patients who presented with acute bilateral endophthalmitis following bilateral intravitreal bevacizumab injection. Both cases were diagnosed clinically and subsequent to a vitreous sample, intravitreal ceftazidime (2.25 mg/0.1ml) and vancomycin (1 mg/0.1ml) were injected. One patient had a significant improvement in signs and symptoms after intravitreal antibiotics. However, there were was no improvement in the other patient and pars plana vitrectomy was performed bilaterally. Vitreous cultures were positive in both cases for Staphylococcus epidermidis.
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spelling pubmed-36175372013-04-11 Acute Bilateral Endophthalmitis Following Bilateral Intravitreal Bevacizumab (Avastin) Injection Tabatabaii, Ali Ahmadraji, Aliasghar Khodabande, Alireza Mansouri, Mohammadreza Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Case Report The clinical presentation and management of two patients who presented with acute bilateral endophthalmitis following bilateral intravitreal bevacizumab injection. Both cases were diagnosed clinically and subsequent to a vitreous sample, intravitreal ceftazidime (2.25 mg/0.1ml) and vancomycin (1 mg/0.1ml) were injected. One patient had a significant improvement in signs and symptoms after intravitreal antibiotics. However, there were was no improvement in the other patient and pars plana vitrectomy was performed bilaterally. Vitreous cultures were positive in both cases for Staphylococcus epidermidis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3617537/ /pubmed/23580860 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.106402 Text en Copyright: © Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tabatabaii, Ali
Ahmadraji, Aliasghar
Khodabande, Alireza
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Acute Bilateral Endophthalmitis Following Bilateral Intravitreal Bevacizumab (Avastin) Injection
title Acute Bilateral Endophthalmitis Following Bilateral Intravitreal Bevacizumab (Avastin) Injection
title_full Acute Bilateral Endophthalmitis Following Bilateral Intravitreal Bevacizumab (Avastin) Injection
title_fullStr Acute Bilateral Endophthalmitis Following Bilateral Intravitreal Bevacizumab (Avastin) Injection
title_full_unstemmed Acute Bilateral Endophthalmitis Following Bilateral Intravitreal Bevacizumab (Avastin) Injection
title_short Acute Bilateral Endophthalmitis Following Bilateral Intravitreal Bevacizumab (Avastin) Injection
title_sort acute bilateral endophthalmitis following bilateral intravitreal bevacizumab (avastin) injection
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3617537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23580860
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.106402
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