Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Etheridge, Tyler
• Swiston, Cole
• Harrie, Roger P
• Bernstein, Paul S

Titel

ACUTE POST-TRAUMATIC ENDOPHTHALMITIS SECONDARY TO BACILLUS PUMILUS / SAFENSIS

Ist Teil von

• Retinal cases & brief reports, 2024-05, Vol.18 (3), p.305-307

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To report a case of post-traumatic endophthalmitis secondary to Bacillus pumilus/safensis . Observational case report of a single patient. A 62-year-old man presented with a traumatic corneal laceration because of baling wire while working on a sheep farm. Appropriate corneal laceration repair with injection of intravitreal antibiotics (ceftazidime, clindamycin, and vancomycin) was performed. A single organism, identified as B. pumilus or Bacillus safensis, was isolated from the vitreous aspirate. A subsequent pars plana vitrectomy, pars plana lensectomy, anterior capsulotomy, and fluid-air exchange was required because of severe inflammatory reaction from retained lens material, retinal edema, and vitreous opacities. Vision improved from hand motion to 20/60 at the three-month follow-up visit. We describe a case of acute post-traumatic endophthalmitis secondary to B. pumilus/safensis.