A large study conducted at Aravind Eye Hospitals in India showed that intracameral antibiotic prophylaxis significantly reduced the risk for endophthalmitis after trabeculectomy with or without combined cataract surgery.
The study, presented at the virtual Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting, was a retrospective cohort analysis of all trabeculectomies with or without cataract extraction carried out between 2009 and 2018 at four Aravind sites. Cataract surgery was performed by phacoemulsification in full fee-paying patients or manual small-incision cataract surgery in
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