Acute Persistent Visual Loss: Endophthalmitis What causes it? Infection enters the eye through a traumatic or surgical wound or from an endogenous site. Pus fills the aqueous and vitreous. Severe eye pain is usually present. What to do? Refer immediately. The patient will have to undergo needle aspiration of the intraocular fluids to determine the causative organism. At the same time, anti-microbial agents may be injected into the vitreous cavity. To learn more, go to Red Eye: endophthalmitis.  Previous Next

An interactive teaching and assessment program on vision care Please contact us with your comments

Originally created by Jonathan Trobe, M.D., University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center © 2009 The Regents of the University of Michigan Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.