R. O. B. de Keizer, J. S. Suwandi, J. C. van Limpt, C. Kluis, G. Hötte, A. P. Nagtegaal, D. Paridaens
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Abstract
Background/Aims
Data regarding the effectiveness of prophylactic systemic antibiotics (PSA) in lacrimal surgery is scarce. Therefore, we determined the postoperative surgical site infection (SSI) rate in lacrimal surgery without PSA.
Methods
We retrospectively analysed files of patients who underwent external (extDCR) or endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (endoDCR). We excluded patients with incomplete data (n = 68), acute a priori infection with the need for antibiotics (n = 15) and PSA post-operatively for other reasons (n = 28). Indications for surgery were canalicular stenosis (n = 51, 18.6% endoDCR vs n = 131, 19.5% extDCR), nasolacrimal duct obstruction (n = 118, 43.2% endoDCR vs n = 480, 64.3% extDCR) and mucocele/chronic dacryocystitis (n = 52, 19.0% endoDCR vs n = 187, 25.0% extDCR).
Results
In this study, 1020 DCR surgeries were performed in 899 patients. Postoperative SSI was diagnosed in eight patients (0.8%); exclusively after extDCR (1.1% of all extDCR). No SSIs were found in endoDCR cases. The prevalence between SSI in extDCR versus endoDCR did not prove significant (n = 8/747 0.8% vs n = 0/273 0%, p = 0.13). All patients diagnosed with SSI were successfully treated with systemic oral antibiotics.
Conclusion
The prevalence of SSI after DCR is low and was effectively treated with oral antibiotics. In our study, SSI occurred rarely after extDCR and was not observed after endoDCR. We conclude that lacrimal surgery is safe without the routine administration of PSA.
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Acta Ophthalmologica is published on behalf of the Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica Foundation and is the official scientific publication of the following societies: The Danish Ophthalmological Society, The Finnish Ophthalmological Society, The Icelandic Ophthalmological Society, The Norwegian Ophthalmological Society and The Swedish Ophthalmological Society, and also the European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER).
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