WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Universal mask use showed to be an effective prevention method for endophthalmitis during intravitreal injections, according to a speaker here at Hawaiian Eye 2022.
Sunir J. Garg, MD, FACS, the co-director of retina research at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, said that intravitreal injections are the most common procedure performed by ophthalmologists.
In the U.S. in 2001, just 5,000 injections were performed, but they have increased annually, with over 6 million injections given in 2016.
Incidence of endophthalmitis ranges between one case in every 1,300 to 1,500