Neuteboom G H, de Vries-Knoppert W A
Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Hospital, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Doc Ophthalmol. 1988 Oct-Nov;70(2-3):175-8. doi: 10.1007/BF00154450.
A 63-year-old patient underwent a Nd:YAG laser capsulotomy, 5 months after an extracapsular cataract extraction. One day later endophthalmitis had developed. Staphylococcus epidermidis was cultured from the vitreous. We assume that this micro-organism, a pathogen of low virulence, had been sequestered in the capsular bag and was released into the vitreous after Nd:YAG capsulotomy.
