@article{7aece33c0d004053a4f471074981c054,
title = "Pneumococcal endophthalmitis associated with nasolacrimal obstruction",
abstract = "Pneumococcal endophthalmitis can be a devastating postoperative infection after cataract extraction or penetrating keratoplasty. Streptococcus pneumoniae was isolated as the causative agent in three of the 124 patients (2%) who were treated for endophthalmitis at our institution between 1984 and 1990. Two of the three patients lost light perception in the affected eye. All three patients had previously unrecognized or untreated chronic nasolacrimal obstruction of varying causes. We studied the role of pneumococcal lacrimal conjunctivitis in the pathogenesis of the postoperative pneumococcal endophthalmitis in these patients.",
author = "Lopez, {P. F.} and Beldavs, {R. A.} and S. Al-Ghamdi and Wilson, {L. A.} and Wojno, {T. H.} and P. Sternberg and Aaberg, {T. M.} and Lambert, {H. M.}",
note = "Funding Information: From the Department of Ophthalmology, Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California (Dr. Lopez); Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia (Drs. Beldavs, Al-Gharndi, Wilson, Wojno, Sternberg, and Aaberg); and Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Waco, Texas (Dr. Lambert). This study was supported in part by Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., New York, New York; and departmental core grant P30EY06360 from the National Institutes of Health.",
year = "1993",
doi = "10.1016/S0002-9394(14)71744-1",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "116",
pages = "56--62",
journal = "American Journal of Ophthalmology",
issn = "0002-9394",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "1",
}