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Endophthalmitis after Nd:YAG laser capsulotomy
G H Neuteboom1, W A de Vries-Knoppert
1Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Hospital, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Documenta Ophthalmologica. Advances in Ophthalmology
|October 1, 1988
Abstract:
A 63-year-old patient underwent a Nd:YAG laser capsulotomy, 5 months after an extracapsular cataract extraction. One day later endophthalmitis had developed. Staphylococcus epidermidis was cultured from the vitreous. We assume that this micro-organism, a pathogen of low virulence, had been sequestered in the capsular bag and was released into the vitreous after Nd:YAG capsulotomy.