VA at baseline portends visual prognosis in endophthalmitis cases

Researchers evaluating the predictors of visual outcomes in cases of infectious endophthalmitis found presenting visual acuity better than hand motion to be the most common indicator of a good visual prognosis.Of the 207 patients included in the prospective, interventional case series at a tertiary eye care center in northern India, 83 had post-cataract surgery endophthalmitis, 84 had post-traumatic endophthalmitis, and 16 had endogenous endophthalmitis. Causes of endophthalmitis in the remaining 24 patients were related to intravitreal injections, blebs, keratoplasty, vitrectomy, keratitis and secondary IOL implantation.