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This article reviews the current literature about the use of intraocular drugs for treatment of bacterial, fungal, viral and protozoal intraocular infection. This route of administration has the advantage of delivering antimicrobials directly into the eye achieving a high therapeutic concentration above the MIC(90) of most pathogens and with minimal systemic side effects. It is usually well tolerated but carries a small risk of intraocular complications. Intraocular therapy is now the main therapeutic approach for treatment of bacterial endophthalmitis and has an important adjunctive role in the management of endogenous fungal endophthalmitis and viral retinitis. Intravitreal clindamycin therapy offers a recent additional strategy to treat ocular toxoplasmosis in patients who are intolerant or resistant to systemic treatment. Current researches is now focusing on new patents as well as on the use of intraocular lenses that incorporate antibiotics during cataract surgery and thus provide a sustained high antibiotic levels in the eye in the immediate postoperative period, not depending on patient's compliance.
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PMID:Intraocular delivery of anti-infective drugs-bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic. 1822 Nov 86

Twenty participants undergoing elective cataract surgery received 1% voriconazole eye drops (1 drop per eye) either 20, 40, 60, or 80 min before surgery. Median voriconazole concentrations of 1.9 to 3.2 mg/liter in aqueous humor samples were attained over the first 80 min, which were higher than in vitro MIC90 values for typical fungi that cause keratitis.
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PMID:Open-Label Study of Absorption and Clearance of 1% Voriconazole Eye Drops. 2755 Mar 48


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