Postcataract acute endophthalmitis in France: national prospective survey.

Purpose: To report results of the National French Observational Database for Endophthalmitis (Observatoire National Des Endophtalmies [ONDE]).

Setting: Departments of ophthalmology at universities, general hospitals, and private clinics.

Methods: In this multicenter national interventional case series, data were collected prospectively between March 1, 2003, and November 1, 2004, from French ophthalmologists who answered a standardized 175-item questionnaire.

[Anterior chamber migration of Supramid tube from short Krupin valves after more than 13 years of implantation. Two case reports].

Introduction: In 2004, the authors had to remove two short Krupin valves because the Supramid tube of these valves implanted 13 years previously had migrated into the anterior chamber.

Case Report: The first case was treated in April 2004, the second in November 2004. These valves had been implanted in January 1991 and August 1983 respectively; both because of insufficient, intense general and local medical treatments for vascular glaucoma: post-traumatic for one and neovascular glaucoma after central retinal vein occlusion for the other.

[Recurrent acute Enterococcal faecalis endophthalmitis following cataract surgery: a case report with a favorable outcome].

Introduction: Enterococcal faecalis endophthalmitis is an acute type of endophthalmitis that is exceptional because it is rare, can be recurrent, and has a poor functional prognosis.

Observation: We report a case of recurrent Enterococcus faecalis endophthalmitis after cataract surgery on a 76-year-old woman. After four acute infectious episodes over a few months, this patient recovered without ablation of the IOL.

[Monitoring, reporting, and preventing nosocomial infections in ophthalmology. Creation of the National Endophthalmitis Observation Database (ONDE)].

Introduction: Fighting against nosocomial infections (NI) is one of the missions of every healthcare institution (Decree No. 99-1034, 6 December 1999 and circular No. DGS-DHOS-2600-645, 29 December 2000).

[Pellet guns: a persistent threat to eyes].

Following a recent case of bilateral perforating ocular trauma by multiple pellets, the authors reviewed pellet traumatisms treated in the Emergency Department and operated on in the Ophthalmology Department of the Villeneuve-St-Georges Hospital over the past 15 years. At close range, pellet weapon shootings can generate lid, conjunctiva, and powder cornea tattoos; in these cases, the lesions are often unilateral. Shooting at longer range does not result in corneodermic tattoos, but because pellets scatter, binocular lesions frequently occur.