Epidemiology and outcomes of Endophthalmitis in chronic dialysis patients: a 13-year experience in a tertiary referral center in Taiwan

Table 1 Clinical summary of 25 chronic dialysis patients with endogenous endophthalmitis

No.	Gender	Age	Eyes involved	Immuno-compromised status	Bacteremia	Vitreous culture	Initial visual acuity	Final visual acuity	Treatment	Concomitant infection focus & signs
1	M	87	Right	cirrhosis, active HCC		Kp	-	Enucleation	Enucleation
2	M	51	Right			N/A	CF	CF	Parenteral antifungus
3	M	67	Right	DM	ORSA	N/A	-	-	Parenteral antibiotics	TCC infection
4	M	53	Both	DM	OSSA	N/A	CF	CF	Parenteral antibiotics
5	F	69	Left	DM	CoNS	CoNs	-	-	IVI,TPPV	AVG infection
6	F	56	Left			negative	PL	PL	Parenteral antibiotics
7	F	84	Right	DM		PsA	NPL	NPL	IVI
8	M	66	Right	DM		negative	NPL	NPL	IVI
9	F	70	Right	DM		ORSA	HM	HM	Parenteral antibiotics
10	M	59	Left	DM		negative	CF	CF	Parenteral antibiotics
11	M	60	Left	DM	ORSA, PsA	PsA	N/A	N/A	Parenteral antibiotics	Pneumonia
12	F	75	Left			Kp, CoNS	6/60	6/20	IVI,TPPV
13	M	61	Left	DM		negative	NPL	NPL	IVI
14	F	86	Right		Bacillus cerues	negative	NPL	Enucleation	Enucleation	TCC infection
15	F	71	Left	DM		negative	N/A	Enucleation	Enucleation
16	F	70	Right	DM		Fungal: Acremonium	HM	CF	IVI
17	F	38	Right	Prednisolone 5 mg/day		N/A	6/20	6/20	Parenteral antibiotics	PAOD with gangrenes
18	F	54	Right	DM	OSSA	negative	PL	PL	IVI	TCC infection
19	M	62	Left	DM		negative	CF	CF	IVI	DM foot infection
20	F	52	Both	DM		Kp	N/A	CF	IVI	UTI
21	M	80	Right	DM	PsA	PsA	N/A	Enucleation	Enucleation
22	M	66	Left	DM, cirrhosis, active HCC		negative	NPL	NPL	IVI
23	M	46	Right	DM		negative	NPL	NPL	IVI
24	F	78	Right	nil		negative	NPL	Enucleation	Enucleation
25	F	49	Right	DM	ORSA	Staphylococcus epidermidis Pseudomonas fluorescens	6/21	CF	IVI

DM diabetes mellitus, HCC hepatocellular carcinoma, ORSA oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, OSSA oxacillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus, CoNS coagulase negative Staphylococcus, PsA Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Kp Klebsiella pneumoniae, IVI intra-vitreous injection, TPPV trans pars plana vitrectomy, TCC tunneled cuffed catheter, AVG arterio-venous graft, PAOD peripheral arterial occlusive disease, UTI urinary tract infection, CF count fingers, HM hand movement, PL perception of light, NPL no perception of light, N/A not assessable because of impaired consciousness, − missing data

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