Research Article
An Eleven-Year Retrospective Study of Endogenous Bacterial Endophthalmitis
Table 4
Prognostic factors associated with good visual outcomes.
| Factors | Final visual outcome | Odds ratio (95% CI) | | ≥20/200 | <20/200 |
| Sex | | | | | Male | 12 | 6 | 1.50 (0.25–8.98) | 1.00 | Female | 4 | 3 | | | Eye | | | | | Right | 5 | 5 | 0.36 (0.07–1.97) | 0.397 | Left | 11 | 4 | | | Initial visual acuity | | | | | ≥20/200 | 10 | 0 | — | 0.003 | <20/200 | 6 | 9 | | | Extent of ocular involvement | | | | | Panophthalmitis | 0 | 4 | — | 0.003# | Posterior focal | 5 | 4 | | | Posterior diffuse | 11 | 1 | | | Diabetic mellitus | | | | | Yes | 14 | 3 | 14.00 (1.84–106.47) | 0.010 | No | 2 | 6 | | | Hypertension | | | | | Yes | 5 | 2 | 1.59 (0.24–10.57) | 1.00 | No | 11 | 7 | | | Systemic steroid treatment | | | | | Yes | 3 | 1 | 1.85 (0.16–20.94) | 1.00 | No | 13 | 8 | | | Infection place | | | | | Community-acquired endophthalmitis | 7 | 6 | 0.39 (0.08–2.01) | 0.411 | Hospital-acquired endophthalmitis | 9 | 3 | | | Causative organisms | | | | | Gram stain positive | 11 | 6 | 1.44 (0.19–11.04) | 1.00 | Gram stain negative | 3 | 2 | | | K. pneumonia | | | | | Yes | 0 | 2 | 0.0 (0.0–1.00) | 0.121 | No (others) | 14 | 6 | | | Intravitreal antibiotics | | | | | Yes | 9 | 6 | 0.64 (0.13–43.32) | 0.691 | No | 7 | 3 | | | Interval between diagnosis and intravitreal | | | | | antibiotics | | | | | ≤1 day | 5 | 1 | 6.25 (0.50–77.50) | 0.287 | >1 day | 4 | 5 | | | Vitrectomy | | | | | Yes | 3 | 3 | 0.46 (0.08–2.66) | 0.630 | No | 13 | 6 | | |
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Fisher’s exact test.
#Chi-square test.
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