HEMORRHAGIC VASCULITIS AND RETINOPATHY HERALDING AS AN EARLY SIGN OF BACTERIAL ENDOPHTHALMITIS AFTER INTRAVITREAL INJECTION

Abstract

PURPOSE: To describe a case series of postintravitreal injection, bacterial endophthalmitis heralded by hemorrhagic retinal vasculitis. METHODS: Observational case series of three patients with a history of intravitreal injections for age-related macular degeneration at a tertiary referral center who presented with vision changes and eye pain that were eventually found to have bacterial endophthalmitis. Clinical course was then followed. RESULTS: All patients developed bacterial endophthalmitis and hemorrhagic retinal vasculitis. CONCLUSION: These three cases highlight the importance of hemorrhagic retinal vasculitis as the presenting fundus finding of bacterial endophthalmitis and that this finding in a postinjection patient should be treated as endophthalmitis until proven otherwise.