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Comment on: Successful use of intravitreal and systemic colistin in treating multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa postoperative endophthalmitis.

Muammer Ozcimen1, Yasar Sakarya, Rabia Sakarya, Sertan Goktas, Serap Ozcimen.   

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Year:  2014        PMID: 25579365      PMCID: PMC4313504          DOI: 10.4103/0301-4738.149152

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Indian J Ophthalmol        ISSN: 0301-4738            Impact factor:   1.848


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Dear Editor, We read with a great interest the article entitled “successful use of intravitreal and systemic colistin in treating multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa postoperative endophthalmitis” by Samant and Ramugade.[1] They explored the efficacy of intravitreal and intravenous colistin in postoperative endophthalmitis; however, there are some points to be cleared out. First, the dose of intravitreal dexamethasone in the study was 10-fold greater than the recommended dose regimen. Second, there are no safety studies of colistin when given intravitreally; therefore, there is no determined safe intravitreal dose of colistin. Third, it has been reported that colistin did not reach therapeutically relevant levels in the aqueous and in the vitreous humor of rabbit eyes.[2] We wonder why the authors used such a high concentration of dexamethasone. The intravitreal dexamethasone dose should be 0.4 mg/0.1 ml instead of 4 mg/0.1 ml.[3] It would be informative if the authors explained how they found the dose of intravitreal colistin as 0.1 mg/0.1 ml. Finally, we argue that there should be a limited role for intravenously administered colistin in the treatment of Gram-negative bacterial endophthalmitis.
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1.  Ocular penetration of intravenously administered colistin in rabbit uveitis model.

Authors:  Muammer Ozcimen; Serap Ozcimen; Yasar Sakarya; Rabia Sakarya; Sertan Goktas; Ismail Alpfidan; Erkan Erdogan
Journal:  J Ocul Pharmacol Ther       Date:  2014-07-09       Impact factor: 2.671

2.  Successful use of intravitreal and systemic colistin in treating multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa post-operative endophthalmitis.

Authors:  Preetam Samant; Sarika Ramugade
Journal:  Indian J Ophthalmol       Date:  2014-12       Impact factor: 1.848

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