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Restoration of intraocular pressure after streptococcus endophthalmitis with vitrectomy
1Department of Ophthalmology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.
Ophthalmic Surgery
|February 1, 1994
Abstract:
A bleb infection and subsequent endophthalmitis developed in the left eye of a 68-year-old man who had had a trabeculectomy. Vitreous injections of vancomycin and gentamicin were given, and vitreous cultures grew alpha-Streptococcus. Postoperatively, as the intraocular inflammation resolved, intraocular pressure (IOP) markedly decreased secondary, in our judgment, to ciliary body ischemia. A pars plana vitrectomy relieved the tractional bands and restored the IOP.