Decade-long analysis of postoperative endophthalmitis in Sweden: Insights from insurance and national quality registers

To analyse clinical characteristics and risk factors for post-operative endophthalmitis (POE) in a Swedish patient insurance database and compare prevalence of POE with two national quality registers. We analysed 218 medical records of patients who claimed compensation for POE following ocular surgery from 2010 to 2020. The data were cross-referenced with national quality registers. In total, 189 of 218 patients presented with severe ocular inflammation with no visibility into the posterior fundus and 160 of 218 had hypopyon. After treatment, the best corrected visual acuity improved from 2.4 to 1.8 LogMAR in mean (p