Mucormycosis Endophthalmitis in a Silicone Oil-Filled Eye of an Immunocompetent Patient

ABSTRACT

Purpose:: Fungal endophthalmitis following pars plana vitrectomy with silicone oil tamponade is an infrequent entity. Filamentous fungi like aspergillus are generally associated with endophthalmitis. Mucor is a rarely implicated pathogen in cases of endophthalmitis with only two reported cases in medical literature. Both these cases had uncontrolled diabetes which predisposed them to develop mucor endophthalmitis.

Methods: We report a non-diabetic patient who developed mucor endophthalmitis after uneventful vitreous surgery for myopia associated retinal detachment.

Results: Mucor species induced endophthalmitis in a silicone oil-filled eye of a non-diabetic patient is reported. The eye went into pthisis bulbi.

Conclusions: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of mucor endophthalmitis in a silicone oil-filled globe of an immunocompetent patient.

Keywords:

• Endophthalmitis in a silicone oil-filled eye
• fungal endophthalmitis
• mucor endophthalmitis
• mucormycosis
• post-PPV endophthalmitis

DECLARATION OF INTEREST

The authors report no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.