Macular ischemia after intravitreal amikacin on patient with intraocular foreign body.

Although still used in third world countries, amikacin has a harmful effect to be used intravitreally. To report macular ischemia after an intravitreal injection of amikacin A case report regarding a traumatized eye of a 26-year-old man that was injected intravitreally with amikacin due to intraocular foreign body endophthalmitis Angiography and OCT show macular ischemia due to amikacin toxicity. The case reported here is to alert about the potential harmful effect of intravitreally injected amikacin despite its role as an accepted regimen for endohthalmitis cases.