Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Retinal Detachment after Pediatric Cataract Surgery.

Purpose: To report the incidence of, and to estimate the long-term risk and predisposing factors and the surgical outcomes for, retinal detachment (RD) after pediatric cataract surgery.

Design: Retrospective consecutive interventional case series.

Participants: During the study period 1996 to 2007 at a tertiary eye care institute, 481 eyes of 295 children aged below 16 years with no other ocular and systemic anomalies who underwent lensectomy, posterior capsulorrhexis, and anterior vitrectomy combined with primary intraocular lens implantation were included.

Detection of Escherichia fergusonii by PCR-based DNA sequencing in a case of delayed-onset chronic endophthalmitis after cataract surgery.

Unlabelled: We report a case of chronic low-grade endophthalmitis after cataract surgery presenting with recurrent episodes of severe anterior chamber reactions and hypopyon uveitis caused by Escherichia fergusonii, which was isolated from vitreous aspirate by polymerase chain reaction-based DNA sequencing. Polymerase chain reaction has emerged as an essential, powerful, and rapid laboratory diagnostic technique and a useful adjunct to the conventional gold standard.

Financial Disclosure: No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.