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What is your approach to duration of systemic antibiotics for treatment of isolated bacterial endophthalmitis in the absence of bacteremia or other deep-seated metastatic foci of infection?

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Infectious Disease · Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra / Northwell

Post-surgical (exogenous) endophthalmitis is an uncommon complication. The incidence ranges from 0.04%-0.3%, 0.019%- 0.54%, and 0.11% - 0.03% following cataract surgery, intravitreal injection, and vitrectomy, respectively (Soliman et al., PMID 32467482). Initial management of exogenous endophthalmi...

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