Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Print ISSN: 2395-1443

Online ISSN: 2395-1451

CODEN : IJCEKF

Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology (IJCEO) is open access, a peer-reviewed medical journal, published quarterly, online, and in print, by the Innovative Education and Scientific Research Foundation (IESRF) since 2015. To fulfil our aim of rapid dissemination of knowledge, we publish articles ‘Ahead of Print’ on acceptance. In addition, the journal allows free access (Open Access) to its content, which is likely to attract more readers and citations of articles published in IJCEO. Manuscripts must be prepared in more...

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A Rare Complication: Orbital Cellulitis with Pan-ophthalmitis after cataract surgery

  • Gulshan Barwar,*  
  • Neeraj Apoorva Shah,  
  • Shashya Agarwal,  
  • Atish Kumar

Abstract

A 52 years old male presented with severe pain, redness, watering and swelling of left eye since 4 days after cataract surgery. Surgery performed was small incision cataract surgery with temporal scleral section performed under peri-bulbar anesthesia. Patient had posterior capsular rent and iatrogenic zonular dialysis intra-operatively and iris claw lens was placed. On clinical examination, patient had developed Orbital cellulitis with pan-ophthalmitis post cataract surgery.


Keywords

Pan-ophthalmitis, Orbital cellulitis, Cataract surgery