Operative Complications of Cataract Surgery

Early postoperative sterile hypopyons.

“…Forster et al (1978) obtained positive cultures from 50 % of vitreous and to a lesser extent anterior chamber aspirates in endophthalmitis, but it was considered clinically unjustified to proceed with these aspirations during the series described, as in all other respects these were routine quiet postoperative eyes. In particular there was no lid oedema, chemosis, or loss of anterior chamber or corneal clarity (Fasanella, 1957;Theodore, 1978;Peyman et al, 1978), no undue pain, and the hypopyons were well established by 24 hours (Allen and Correspondence / Notes Grove, 1976). The eyes surveyed showed no difference in behaviour whether with or without hypopyons, and only 7 % of the actual hypopyon incidence was found by the firms treating the patients, partly because of the unremarkable appearance and behaviour of the eyes.…”