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

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.