Risk factors for endophthalmitis requiring evisceration or enucleation

Abstract

Endophthalmitis has devastating sequelae resulting in blindness and even loss of eyeball. Although the prognosis of endophthalmitis has much improved with the advances of antibiotics and vitreoretinal surgery, of the number of patients that required evisceration or enucleation is still significant. We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 210 eyes of 210 patients with endophthalmitis andcompared the group that required evisceration or enucleation with those that received salvaging therapies. Regression analysis was used to identify the risk factors for evisceration or enucleation. Thirty eyes (14.3%) underwent enucleation or evisceration. The group of eviscerated or enucleated eyes were older (58.7 vs. 42.2 years, p < 0.001), had more women (56.7% vs. 22.2%, p = 0.003), had poorer initial visual acuity (2.79 vs. 2.10 LogMAR, p < 0.001), and had longer duration before intervention (18.03 vs. 5.74 days, p = 0.031). The most common primary indications for endophthalmitis were infections from corneal ulcer (50.0% vs. 4.4%, p < 0.001) andfrom endogenous source (23.3% vs. 5.6%, p < 0.001). Less common indications were trauma (26.7% vs. 67.8%, p < 0.001) and postoperative (6.7% vs. 22.2%, p = 0.049) endophthalmitis. After adjusting for confounding factors, corneal ulcer-related endophthalmitis, endogenous endophthalmitis and initial visual acuity were the independent risk factors for evisceration or enucleation.

Risk factors for endophthalmitis requiring evisceration or enucleation

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Xuehui Lu,*, Danny Siu-Chun Ng,*, Kangkeng Zheng, Kun Peng, Chuang Jin, Honghe Xia, Weiqi Chen & Haoyu Chen

Endophthalmitis has devastating sequelae resulting in blindness and even loss of eyeball. Although the prognosis of endophthalmitis has much improved with the advances of antibiotics and vitreoretinal the group that required evisceration or enucleation with those that received salvaging therapies. Regression analysis was used to identify the risk factors for evisceration or enucleation. Thirty eyes < =

< = < < < = endophthalmitis, endogenous endophthalmitis and initial visual acuity were the independent risk factors for evisceration or enucleation.

Endophthalmitis is an inammatory condition of the intraocular structure commonly caused by infection. The source of infection can be exogenous or endogenous. Common causes of exogenous endophthalmitis are trauma, intraocular surgery or infective keratitis. Endophthalmitis has devastating sequelae resulting in blindness and even loss of the eyeball. Even with the advances of antibiotics and vitreoretinal surgery which improved the prognosis of endophthalmitis, there remains a signicant number of patients requiring evisceration or enucleation because antibiotics or vitrectomy failed to control infection or because of severe intraocular tissue destruction.

Evisceration or enucleation is often indicated in eyes that failed to recover from various interventional attempts. A report in 2005 showed the common indications of enucleation were trauma (36%), malignant tumor (20.7%), glaucoma (19.6%), phthisis bulbi (9%) and endophthalmitis (8.1%)1. Another report in 2008 showed that the most frequent indications of enucleation or evisceration were trauma (32.6%), following by glaucoma (27.6%), endophthalmitis (27.3%) and tumor (12.6%)2. These two studies revealed that endophthalmitis is still a major indication for enucleation or evisceration.

It is imperative to look for the means that may improve the chances of salvaging the eye aer infectious endophthalmitis, therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the risk factors associated with evisceration or enucleation in infectious endophthalmitis.

This retrospective study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Joint Shantou International Eye Center of Shantou University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. We reviewed the medical records of patients who were diagnosed with endophthalmitis between January 2008 and September 2015 at the Joint Shantou International Eye Center of Shantou University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The data

Joint Shantou International Eye Center, Shantou University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shantou, China. Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

* These authors contributed equally to this work. Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to H.C. (email: [email protected])

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Duration before

intervention (days) Initial treatment Initial vision

1 Male 91 Corneal ulcer Not done 3 Enucleation NLP2 Male 44 Post-trauma Not done 1 Enucleation NLP3 Male 63 Endogenous Not done 10 Enucleation LP4 Male 86 Corneal ulcer Not done 30 Enucleation NLP5 Male 57 Corneal ulcer Not done 30 Enucleation LP6 Female 90 Corneal ulcer Not done 0.50 Enucleation NLP7 Male 49 Endogenous Enterococcus faecium 2 IV Antibiotics NLP8 Male 58 Post-trauma Not done 26 Enucleation HM9 Male 72 Corneal ulcer Negative 5 Evisceration LP10 Female 39 Post-trauma Not done 29 Enucleation NLP11 Male 31 Post-trauma Negative 21 IV Antibiotics NLP12 Female 77 Corneal ulcer Not done 120 Enucleation NLP13 Female 8 Corneal ulcer Not done 3 Enucleation NLP14 Female 54 Corneal ulcer Negative 0.50 Evisceration NLP15 Female 61 Endogenous Negative 7 Evisceration NLP16 Female 58 Post-trauma Staphylococcus capitis 4 Evisceration NLP17 Male 55 Corneal ulcer Negative 28 IV Antibiotics LP18 Male 61 Corneal ulcer Fungus 10 Conjunctival ap covering LP19 Female 61 Endogenous Negative 120 Enucleation NLP20 Female 55 Endogenous Staphylococcus epidermidis 1 Evisceration NLP21 Male 54 Post-trauma Bacillus subtilis 1 Vitrectomy NLP22 Female 23 Corneal ulcer Negative 14 Evisceration NLP23 Male 45 Endogenous Negative 14 Evisceration NLP24 Male 67 Endogenous Klebsiella pneumoniae 6 Evisceration NLP25 Female 79 Post-operation Enterococcus faecalis 1 IV Antibiotics HM26 Female 56 Post-operation Serratia marcescens 4 Evisceration LP27 Female 82 Corneal ulcer Negative 7 Evisceration NLP28 Male 50 Corneal ulcer Not done 15 Evisceration NLP29 Male 58 Corneal ulcer Not done 13 Evisceration NLP30 Female 76 Corneal ulcer Fungus 15 Conjunctival ap covering NLP

Table 1. Characteristics of patients with endophthalmitis who underwent evisceration or enucleation.

IV: intravitreal; NLP: no light perception; LP: light perception; HM: hand movements.

included age, sex, etiology, past medical history, clinical manifestations, microbiology, leukocyte counts and types of interventions were collected.

Chinese standard logarithm visual chart was used to measure initial VA and then converted into Logarithm of minimal angle of resolution (LogMAR) unit. The arbitrary LogMAR values for VA less than counting nger were used as follow: counting nger was converted to 2.0 LogMAR units, hand motion was converted to 2.3 LogMAR units, light perception was converted to 2.5LogMAR units, and no light perception was converted to 3.0 LogMAR units3,4.

Two groups were divided according to whether the eyes underwent enucleation/evisceration or not. Independent sample t-test, Chi-square test, Fishers exact test, Mann-whitey test were used to analyze the dierence between the two groups. Logistic regression analysis was used to detect the associated factors for enucleation or evisceration. The level of signicance was dened as p-value less than 0.05. All the statistical analyses were performed with using SPSS soware version 17.0 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL).

Results

Our study included 210 eyes from 210 patients with endophthalmitis. The mean age was 44.6 22.9 years (ranged from 5 to 93 years). There were 54 (25.7%) women and 156 (74.3%) men. 128 (61.0%) eyes had post-traumatic endophthalmitis, 42 (20.0%) had post-operative endophthalmitis, 23 (11.0%) had corneal ulcer related endophthalmitis, 17 (8.1%) had endogenous endophthalmitis. Among 210 eyes with endophthalmitis, thirty (14.3%) eyes were eviscerated or enucleated, other cases received vitrectomy with silicone oil (17.1%), vitrectomy without silicone oil (29.0%), intravitreal antibiotics (35.2%) and intravenous antibiotics (0.5%). Among 30 cases that received evisceration or enucleation, 4 eyes had received intravitreal antibiotics, 1 eye had received vitrectomy and 2 eyes had received conjunctival ap covering as initial treatment but these interventions failed to control the inammation. None of the patients in the salvaging group received therapeutic keratoplasty. The rest of 23 eyes received evisceration or enucleation as initial treatment. The characteristics of patients who received evisceration or enucleation were listed in Table1.

No. Gender Age (Years) Cause Microbial culture

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evisceration/enucleation salvaging p

N 30 180

Age 58.718.8 42.322.7 <0.001#Female 13 (43.3%) 40 (22.2%) 0.014+Male 17 (56.7%) 140 (77.8%)

Le eye 10 (33.3%) 83 (46.1%) 0.192+ Right eye 20 (66.7%) 97 (53.9%)

Table 2. Comparison of characteristics between the patients with endophthalmitis receiving evisceration/ enucleation or salvaging therapy. *Fisher Text. #Independent Sample t-test. +Chi-square test.

evisceration/enucleation salvaging p

Trauma 6 (20.0%) 122 (67.8%) <0.001+

Postoperative 2 (6.7%) 40 (22.2%) 0.049+Corneal ulcer 15 (50.0%) 8 (4.4%) <0.001*

Endogenous 7 (23.3%) 10 (5.6%) 0.004*

Table 3. Comparison of the cause between the patients with endophthalmitis receiving evisceration/ enucleation or salvaging therapy. *Fisher text; #Independent Sample t-test; +Chi-square test.

Factors evisceration/enucleation salvaging p

N 30 180

Diabetes 1 (3.4%) 6 (3.4%) 0.734* Duration before intervention

(days) 18.0 29.4 5.7 12.2 0.031#

Initial visual acuity <0.001 NLP 22 (73.3%) 13 (7.2%)

LP 6 (20.0%) 31 (17.2%)

HM 2 (6.7%) 78 (43.3%)

FC or better 0 (0%) 58 (32.2%)

Bacteria 7 (23.3%) 36 (20.0%) 0.599+ Fungus 2 (6.7%) 3 (1.1%) 0.099* Leukocyte counts (*109/L) 9.90 3.64 10.98 4.03 0.170#

Duration of intravenous

antibiotics (days) 6.6 4.9 6.2 3.2 0.666#

Table 4. Comparison of clinical characters between the patients with endophthalmitis receiving evisceration/enucleation or salvaging therapy. *Fisher Text. #Independent Sample t-test. +Chi-squaretest; -: Mann-Whitney u text. NLP: no light perception; LP: light perception, HM: hand movement; FC: nger counting.

The mean age was older in the evisceration/enucleation group than in the salvaging group (58.718.8 years vs. 42.3 22.7 years, p< 0.001) (Table2). There were more female in evisceration/enucleation group (43.3%) than in the salvaging group (22.2%) (p= 0.014). There was no statistical signicant dierence in laterality between the two groups.

Table3 revealed that trauma-related endophthalmitis was signicantly less frequent in the evisceration/enucleation group (26.7%) than in the salvaging group (67.8%) (p< 0.001). There were 6.7% cases with postoperative endophthalmitis in the evisceration/enucleation group compared with 22.2% in the salvaging group (p=0.049). Corneal ulcer-related endophthalmitis was signicantly more frequent in the evisceration/enucleation group (50.0%) than in the salvaging group (4.4%) (p< 0.001). Endogenous endophthalmitis was also signicantly more frequent in the evisceration/enucleation group (23.3%) than in the salvaging group (5.6%) (p=0.004).

Table4 illustrated that the duration of onset was signicantly longer in the evisceration/enucleation group (18.0 29.4 days vs. 5.7 12.2 days, p< 0.001) and the initial visual acuity was signicantly worse (2.070.64 vs. 2.70.47, p< 0.001). There were no signicant dierences in the results of microbial culture, leukocyte counts, number of patients with diabetes, or duration of intravenous antibiotics between the two groups.

Logistic regression analysis revealed that aer adjusting for confounding factors, corneal ulcer related endophthalmitis (b = 2.595 0.639, p < 0.001), endogenous endophthalmitis (b = 1.878 0.684, p = 0.006) and initial visual acuity (b=3.1350.817, p< 0.001) were still signicantly associated with evisceration or enucleation.

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Discussion

Our study found that corneal ulcer, endogenous endophthalmitis, female, older age, poor initial visual acuity and delayed intervention were strongly associated with evisceration or enucleation in univariate analysis. However, eyes with trauma-related endophthalmitis and postoperative endophthalmitis were less likely to be eviscerated or enucleated. Multivariate analysis showed that corneal ulcer, endogenous endophthalmitis and initial visual acuity were signicantly associated with evisceration or enucleation aer adjustment.

Tsai et al.5 reviewed 86 patients with endophthalmitis and found that evisceration or enucleation was performed in twenty patients (23.2%). In our study, only 14% of patients underwent evisceration or enucleation. This might be due to the advancement of medical technology for diagnosing and curing endophthalmitis. Similarly, Tsai et al. reported that poor initial visual acuity, older patients, corneal ulcer related endophthalmitis and endogenous endophthalmitis were signicantly associated with evisceration and enucleation in univariate analysis5.

In addition, we found that female and delayed intervention were risk factors for evisceration or enucleation. Trauma-related endophthalmitis and post-operation endophthalmitis were less likely to be evisceration or enucleation. In our multivariate analysis, corneal ulcer, endogenous endophthalmitis and initial visual acuity were signicantly associated with evisceration or enucleation. This is the rst study to report risk factors strongly associated with evisceration or enucleation using multivariate analysis with sufficient sample size.

In the literature, the high incidence of enucleation or evisceration among patients with corneal ulcer associated endophthalmitis has been reported. Henry et al. reported that 31% of patients with infectious keratitis-related endophthalmitis underwent enucleation or evisceration6. ONeill et al. found that among 37 patients with microbial keratitis-associated endophthalmitis, 16 (43.3%) were eviscerated or enucleated as primary treatment, and 23 (62.2%) subsequently required evisceration or enucleation7. Scott IU et al. found that 3 (21.4%) out of 14 patients with corneal ulcer underwent evisceration or enucleation8. The risk factors for the progression from keratitis to endophthalmitis included: delayed diagnosis and treatment of microbial keratitis, the use of topical steroid, trauma, contact lens use and previous ocular surgical history719. In our study, 65.2% of corneal ulcer-related endophthalmitis required enucleation or evisceration which was higher than most previous reports. As the cornea may become opaque and thin in microbial keratitis, it may be difficult to perform vitrectomy unless combined with keratoplasty. Low socioeconomic status, poor accessibility to tertiary eye care, living in remote areas, lack of awareness of the adverse sequelae of keratitis and poor adherence to medical advice plausibly led to delayed intervention and failure to salvage the eyes among these patients. For instance, a few patients preferred evisceration for pain relief rather than other surgical attempts to save the eyeball due to the low cost and to avoid prolonged follow-up care. Further studies are required to identify the obstacles to prompt and optimal ophthalmic care in our locality to prevent the loss of any useful vision.

Endogenous endophthalmitis is generally associated with a number of systemic diseases, including liver abscess, pneumonia, endocarditis, urinary tract infection, meninges infection, diabetes mellitus, immunosuppression and some of them had a history of recent hospitalization or recent surgery2026. Zenith et al. reported that 27.3% of eyes with endogenous endophthalmitis underwent enucleation or evisceration27. Sridhar et al. review 67 eyes with endogenous fungal endophthalmitis and found that patients with endogenous endophthalmitis caused by molds were more likely to be enucleated22. Eyes diagnosed with endogenous fungal endophthalmitis should be monitored closely, and they may require prompt vitrectomy for better outcome. Managing systemic comorbidities is crucial at the same time. Jackson et al. reviewed 342 cases of endogenous bacterial endophthalmitis, and found that 24% required evisceration or enucleation and both intravitreal dexamethasone and vitrectomy were associated with fewer evisceration or enucleations26. Our study also found that none of the endogenous endophthalmitis eyes that underwent vitrectomy required enucleation or evisceration. So vitrectomy was eective in saving the eye. In addition, 41% of eyes with endogenous endophthalmitis in our study were enucleated or eviscerated. Almost all of these patients had no useful vision when presented at our center, and were reluctant to follow medical advice on potential eye saving interventions including vitrectomy and keratoplasty.

In our study, both univariate analysis and multivariate analysis showed that poor initial visual acuity led to higher incidence of evisceration or enucleation for endophthalmitis, and 70% of patients who underwent evisceration or enucleation presented with no light perception. Poor initial visual acuity may be caused by the strong virulence of microorganism and/or delayed treatment of endophthalmitis, leading to the loss of the eye. Our results agreed with previous reports in the literature that poorer presenting visual acuity associated with worse prognosis. Gower et al. performed a population-based study in the United States and found that poor initial visual acuity was a risk factor for poor prognosis in patients with postoperative endophthalmitis28. Sallam et al. reviewed 44 eyes with candida endophthalmitis also reported that poor initial visual acuity signicantly associated with worse visual outcome in both of their univariate analysis and multivariate analysis29.

According to Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study (EVS)30, the main treatment for endophthalmitis included intravitreal antibiotics and vitrectomy. Similar to previous reports, this study revealed that delayed diagnosis and delayed treatment of endophthalmitis have been associated with enucleation or evisceration20,3133. Therefore,

early diagnosis and intervention of endophthalmitis will improve the chance of salvaging the eye.

Our study also found that female, older age were risk factors for evisceration and enucleation. Many studies agree with the opinion that older age was risk factors for evisceration/enucleation. Gower et al. reported that older age was an important predictor of poor visual outcome28. Chiquet et al. and Ji et al. found that more virulent organisms were signicantly associated with older age28,34. A meta-analysis also showed that old age was associated with higher risk of acute endophthalmitis35. Gaton et al. reported that enucleation or evisceration surgeries were more frequently performed in older age group2. In our series, female had higher risk for enucleation or evisceration. A possible explanation was that more women were diagnosed with keratitis associated endophthalmitis or endogenous endophthalmitis in our study. Gender was not an independent risk factor aer adjusting for cofounders in multiple logistic regression analysis. With, However, some studies revealed that men were more

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likely to have endophthalmitis than female1,35. Further studies are required to investigate whether gender is associated with endophthalmitis and evisceration/enucleation.

This study is limited by its retrospective nature. The managements of patients were non-standardized, which may inuence the nal outcome. Furthermore, the sample in the evisceration/enucleation group was small compared with the salvaging group. Larger sample size will make the statistical analysis more valid. There are some cases that do not have microbial culture and some cases are culture negative. This reduces the sample size and we cannot determine which microbiological diagnoses are the risk factors for evisceration.

In summary, corneal ulcer, endogenous endophthalmitis, female, older age, poor initial visual acuity, delayed intervention were risk factors for evisceration or enucleation. Trauma-related endophthalmitis and postoperative endophthalmitis were less likely to be eviscerated or enucleated. Aer adjusting for confounding factors in multivariate analysis, corneal ulcer, endogenous endophthalmitis and poor initial visual acuity were strongly associated with evisceration or enucleation. Advocating for prompt referral to ophthalmologists, early intervention and closer monitoring of the disease progression in corneal ulcer are crucial for controlling ocular inammation to prevent the loss of eyes.

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (81170853), and Joint Shantou International Eye Center Intramural Grant (2010-025).

Author Contributions

H.C. and W.C. designed the study. K.Z., K.P., C.J. and H.X. collect patients information. X.L. and D.N. analyzed data. X.L. wrote the main manuscript text. D.S.-C.N. and H.C. revised the manuscript. All authors reviewed the manuscript.

Additional Information

Competing nancial interests: The authors declare no competing nancial interests.

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