NEW YORK — Patients with endophthalmitis had worse visual acuity at presentation during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with patients who presented before the pandemic.
“The initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic drastically impacted ophthalmology patient care, including when patients presented for vision-threatening conditions, such as
endophthalmitis,” Blake H. Fortes, MD, and colleagues wrote in a poster at the American Society of Retina Specialists annual meeting.
Twenty-eight patients with endophthalmitis were included in a multicenter retrospective case series that