Recurrent corneal erosions related to an ocular injury 15 years before presentation.

Purpose: To report the case of a patient who presented with recurrent corneal erosions caused by an undetected plastic foreign body in the upper eyelid, which had remained asymptomatic for nearly 15 years following an ocular injury.

Observations: A 39-year-old patient presented with recurrent corneal erosions and frontal headaches of unknown aetiology over the preceding eight months. The patient had previously been seen by twelve different ophthalmologists and had been treated over a 6-month period with a bandage contact lens, and therapeutic corneal scraping had been performed twice.

Effectiveness of immediate vitrectomy and intravitreal antibiotics for post-injection endophthalmitis.

Purpose: To show that an immediate vitrectomy with an intravitreal injection of antibiotics can be an effective approach for the treatment of acute endophthalmitis following intravitreal injections.

Methods: We reviewed all cases of clinical endophthalmitis caused by an intravitreal injection that were treated in our department between March 2012 and November 2019. Only patients that underwent a vitrectomy within 6 h after presentation to the clinic and with a documented visual acuity shortly before the causative event were included.

[Microbiological and infectious disease aspects of postoperative endophthalmitis].

Infectious postoperative or postinjection endophthalmitis is a medical emergency. Gram-positive bacteria, such as staphylococci, streptococci and enterococci are the predominant causative agents, whereas Gram-negative pathogens (e.g.