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

Fisher’s exact test.
^#Chi-square test.